the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser maps the rise of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest to the proliferation of pollution. In this case, the lead- and arsenic-poisoned plume that ...

In an interview with The News Tribune last week, Communities for a Healthy Bay identified these four businesses as the most ...

TACOMA - Workers resumed cleaning up polluted soil in residential yards near an old Tacoma-area Asarco smelter site on Thursday, and were expected to resume similar work in about a week in Everett ...

TACOMA - A giant burial mound in Ruston holds the ruins of Asarco’s copper smelter: bricks, mortar and soil so saturated with arsenic and lead that the crypt they are buried in will have to be ...

Stung by a series of mining companies that folded, sticking taxpayers with the tab for toxic-waste cleanups, U.S. authorities yesterday took the unusual step of ordering Mexican-owned Asarco Inc ...

OLYMPIA -- New soil tests show airborne arsenic and lead pollution from the former Asarco smelter in Tacoma has spread over about 1,000 square miles of the Puget Sound area, the state Ecology ...

Asarco polluted my neighborhood because it would not pay to install technology to mitigate the damage. The Tacoma smelter closed in 1985 , but the stack just sat there, looming for years over a ...

Pollution cleanups in Everett and Tacoma derailed by the bankruptcy of smelting giant Asarco are now getting back on track. Work at 13 contaminated homes around Tacoma was expected to resume today ...

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The Asarco smelter plume is estimated to stretch across more than 1,000 square miles of Pierce, Thurston and King counties. Lead and arsenic in the soil can cause significant long-term health ...

Because the state’s capital-budget bill went up in smoke, Tacoma, Ruston and Vashon Island will lose out on most of this year’s planned work to scrub away pollution from the long-gone Asarco ...