A potted creosote plant she brought back from Arizona brings the smell of the desert into her New York apartment. My family moved to Tucson from Colorado when I was in high school, and it was the ...

HOUSTON — People living near a former Fifth Ward creosote plant linked to nearby cancer clusters will have to wait a little longer for money to move. On Wednesday, Houston City Council delayed a vote ...

The site of the former Holcomb Creosote plant off U.S. 601 has been placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list for long-term cleanup, the agency announced Friday. The business ...

Where it rains very little, you learn to be attuned to any sign the weather could turn wet—any sign that relief is imminent. Gray clouds move in, dimming the sky. The air thickens. A roll of thunder ...

ST. GEORGE — Thousands of years ago, a desert-hardy plant, now quintessentially southern Utahn, moved from what is now northern New Mexico across the Mojave Desert. And a native species of rodent ...

EPA officials promised to trace the impacts of elevated toxin levels in Fifth Ward near where a creosote plume has spread below the neighborhood adjacent to a Union Pacific rail yard. EPA told ...

CASPER — A Casper company is preparing to ship 1.2 million pounds of chemically-enhanced bentonite to Portland, Ore., to clean up an old creosote plant that is beginning to pollute the Willamette ...