On Feb. 2, three-year-old company Westwin Elements attempted to present a series of reassuring facts to a town hall audience of over 300 in Richmond Hill, where it hopes to establish the country’s ...

The Bush administration tweaked Clean Water Act regulations to reclassify mining waste as “fill.” Now, that revised definition has been applied to metals mining for the first time — allowing a gold ...

The 10-foot-high pile of what looks like dirt at the back of a lot at the Stonington transfer station doesn’t seem much different from any of the other piles nearby. But it is. And to Dave Aldridge ...