Newport Beach may have found somewhere to get rid of the harbor’s contaminated sediment besides its own backyard. On Tuesday night, the City Council approved an amended agreement with the dredging ...

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The region around the Mississippi River town of Galena, Illinois, ran on lead for the better part of a century. The town took its name from the local abundance of the natural mineral form of lead. By ...