Trail, B.C., is home to one of the last lead smelters in North America. It’s a major economic driver in the small community, ...

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has completed an initial screening of suspected lead smelter sites located in Detroit. The screening study was commissioned to determine if there are ...

When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary Ridgway, the future Green River Killer, grew up just a short drive north. Both ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has fined Exide Technologies $225,000 for air quality violations at the company’s Berks County lead smelting facility. The DEP says that ...

ST. LOUIS • A negligence lawsuit against the former owners of a Herculaneum lead smelter accusing them of exposing some residents to elevated lead levels drew closer to an end Tuesday as the case went ...

The project plans to increase the smelter capacity at Xstrata Zinc’s McArthur River openpit zinc/lead mine, located 900 km south-east of Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory. The expansion will ...