They got mortgages for houses built on toxic material.” Sol Piñeiro in her yard ... local resistance halted plans to build a coal plant in Mayaguez, the town on Puerto Rico’s west coast home to a ...

SALINAS, Puerto Rico — Shuttered windows ... For years, toxic ash and noxious chemicals from coal-fired and thermoelectric power plants have enveloped this community, and residents have ...

The vast majority of Puerto ... treatment plants remained out of service. Meanwhile, Environmental Protection Agency officials could not inspect some of the island's highly toxic Superfund sites ...

Because most of Puerto Rico’s sterilizer plants are located in low-income and minority areas, many of the people who get cancer from the toxic fumes might not have access to hospitals with ...

Proposed rules to update control of air toxic emissions from commercial ... Athens, Texas; Sandy, Utah; and Richmond, Virginia; Four plants are Puerto Rico: Anasco, Fajardo, Salinas and Villalba.

Barceloneta, a town on the northern coast of Puerto Rico known for housing many manufacturing plants, is also the site of a 33-acre plot full of toxic waste that has been there for decades ...

A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the island attempts to strengthen its fragile economy. Government officials are jumping on planes to try and convince international companies to ...