Six miles west of downtown Corpus Christi lies an industrial graveyard, a site where waste from the oil boom was buried beneath layers of sand and soil. But the earth has not forgotten. At the Brine Service Company Superfund Site, pollutants like benzene, chromium,...
You’ve heard of lithium — the stuff that powers your phone, your laptop, and maybe even your car. But what you might not know is how one of the biggest suppliers of this precious metal, Albemarle Corporation, got to the top of the industry. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t by...
The Shenango River flows quietly through Sharon, Pennsylvania. Its waters reflecting the leaves and sky like a placid mirror. But beneath the surface, it carries a far darker history—one tainted with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that once leaked into the ecosystem...