The four sewage treatment plant workers had gone to check on an unusual pressure buildup in the tank and were either on or near it at the time of the explosion Monday afternoon, Fire Chief Bobby ...

Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, a private landowner and an Arkansas-based waste company of illegally ...

The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely limit, if not ban, sludge tanks in the county. Sludge tanks, also known as Dissolved Air Flotation tanks, are used by ...

Early October is a busy time for farmers in the wooded, agricultural countryside between Mardela Springs and Hebron, Maryland. It's harvesting season: The yellow-green soybean fields are replete with ...

ROCKDALE, Ill. – A holding tank at a Caterpillar facility in a Chicago suburb broke yesterday, spilling about 65,000 gallons of oil sludge and contaminating a 3-mile section of the Des Plaines River, ...