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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The U.S. has filled Smuggler's Gulch, a canyon along the Mexican border, with almost 2 million cubic yards of dirt. Environmentalists say the... Border Fence Yields Showdown At Smuggler's Gulch As the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Work is currently underway on phase two of the South Veterans Parkway project, and the work of the week is ‘dirt’. Specifically, 1.2 million cubic yards of dirt which Sioux ...