Each year, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management publishes a list of cleanup priorities for its sites around the country. Progress in the cleanup program is measured by how ...

Cathedral City will spend nearly $4 million to remove dirt brought to its Panorama neighborhood by mud flows during Tropical Storm Hilary. The storm wrecked several roads and neighborhoods in the city ...

The feds are trying to figure out where to put 50 million cubic yards of ocean floor dirt. By federal law, the shipping lanes of New York and New Jersey Harbor must be deep enough for large cargo ...

Each year, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo transforms NRG Stadium into a high-energy celebration jam-packed with tons of action. But before the fun, a crucial task takes center stage -- dirt, ...

Contaminated dirt on the piece of land in Dallas once known as "shingle mountain" is being removed. The City of Dallas started digging up and removing 40,000 cubic yards of soil at the former Blue ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed a project to remove all contaminated soil from the banks of Coldwater Creek near Jana Elementary School. In a statement, the Corps of ...

State environmental officials have given Northrop Grumman a massive task: Dig up and cart off 70,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil from Bethpage Community Park. But a month after the first drums ...

For a decade, local officials have wanted to excavate hundreds of thousands of yards of sediment from under Detroit Lake Marina and Kane’s Marina in Detroit. The idea is that by moving the dirt, the ...