This year's historic hurricane season exposed a little-known public health threat: Highly polluted sites that can be inundated by floodwaters, potentially spreading toxic contamination.
In Houston, more than a dozen Superfund sites were flooded by Hurricane Harvey, with breaches reported at two. In the Southeast and Puerto Rico, Superfund sites were battered by driving rains and winds from Irma and Maria.
The vulnerable sites highlighted by AP's review are scattered across the nation, but Florida, New Jersey and California have the most, and the most people living near them. They are in largely low-income, heavily minority neighborhoods, the data show.
The Park Fire, already the largest wildfire in California this year has burned over 71,000 acres...
As the temperature soared in the Houston-area home Janet Jarrett shared with her sister after losing...
World temperature records were shattered on Sunday on what may be the hottest day scientists have...
Alejandra Palma lives in perpetual fear of the next storm.
“We are constantly checking the weather,” said...
