A potted creosote plant she brought back from Arizona brings the smell of the desert into her New York apartment. My family moved to Tucson from Colorado when I was in high school, and it was the ...

Beatriz Bracamonte comes from a long line of healers, through plant medicines and helping people feel healthy again. Then COVID-19 struck. “When the pandemic hit, obviously I could not have people ...

HOUSTON — People living near a former Fifth Ward creosote plant linked to nearby cancer clusters will have to wait a little longer for money to move. On Wednesday, Houston City Council delayed a vote ...

ST. GEORGE — Thousands of years ago, a desert-hardy plant, now quintessentially southern Utahn, moved from what is now northern New Mexico across the Mojave Desert. And a native species of rodent ...

You know when it's about to rain in Tucson and you're like, "it smells like rain" like it's your super power? That's creosote. It's a plant unique to Tucson and other dry regions like the Mohave ...

CASPER — A Casper company is preparing to ship 1.2 million pounds of chemically-enhanced bentonite to Portland, Ore., to clean up an old creosote plant that is beginning to pollute the Willamette ...

EPA officials promised to trace the impacts of elevated toxin levels in Fifth Ward near where a creosote plume has spread below the neighborhood adjacent to a Union Pacific rail yard. EPA told ...