Hundreds of SEPTA employees at the transit agency’s largest bus depot in the city were met with a thick plume of black smoke ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said it would allow the fire to burn because the cars’ lithium-ion batteries could explode. The ship’s ...

Fifty years ago, a familiar conflict was playing out south of Silver City. State and federal regulators were trying to implement stricter controls on sulfur dioxide pollution from a Hurley smelter.

CALISTOGA, Calif. (AP) — For residents of this quaint tourist town on the northern edge of Napa Valley, the threat of ...

Around 250 firefighters battled a raging Nassau County recycling plant fire Wednesday morning. The blaze began shortly after 2 a.m. at the Crown Recycling Facility in Calverton, according to News 12 ...

The wind turbine at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids was brought down Tuesday after more than a decade on campus.

Months after a massive battery plant fire, the PG&E facility next door was ready to get back on the grid. But the company ...

A fire near Cold Lake is bearing down on oilsands operations and curtailing production in the region as employees are told to ...

Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and ...