Waste disposal

FILE - In this March 6, 2014, file photo, empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The U.S. government's efforts to clean up decades worth of Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has chugged along, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say threatens public health and the environment. Now, fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic is resulting in more challenges as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground repository for nuclear waste, finished ramping down operations Wednesday, April 1, 2020, to keep workers safe. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Watchdog: US nuclear dump facing space, staffing challenges

By Susan Montoya Bryan Dec. 01, 2020 11:45 AM EST

Hassan asks for action on scammers; wellness kits offered

By Kathy Mccormack Jun. 26, 2020 09:43 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission has received more than 1,000 reports from New Hampshire of scammers seeking to take advantage of people...

An employee of Xochimilco's crematorium directs a hearse into the unloading area, as him and another employee wait for the corpse of a person suspected to have died of the new coronavirus, in Mexico City, Monday, May 4, 2020. The men are standing next to pile of discarded coffins that contained people who died of COVID-19 disease, and are waiting to be destroyed at the site. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico faces infectious waste disposal problem amid pandemic

May. 18, 2020 06:08 PM EDT