Tar balls have been on beaches across South Florida, including as far as Jaycee and Humiston beaches in Indian River County last weekend. Where the sticky, semi-solid clumps of oil originated from is ...

There’s a marked difference between having to wash a car and wanting to wash a car. The former is a chore that is assigned to sullen teens in the wash bays of countless car dealers across the nation.

COLUMBIA — Dominion Energy contractors have removed the first patch of 100-year-old toxic tar from the bottom of the Congaree River near downtown Columbia, marking a major milestone in the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Work will begin this summer to remove tens of thousands of tons of coal tar from a South Carolina river. The Congaree River in Columbia will remain open for kayakers and boaters, but ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Crews from South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) say they have removed 20,000 tons of coal tar from along the Congaree River as part of Phase 1 of the ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

Columbia river enthusiasts may need to reroute their recreation plans this summer as work begins to remove 40,000 tons of toxic coal tar from a stretch of the Congaree River. The work is expected the ...