Seafood is a major industry in New England. It generates a lot of revenue for coastal communities, but with that productivity ...

Workers in solid waste management and remediation face a variety of dangers—excessive noise, poor ergonomics, pollution and ...

DNREC officials lifted the recreational water advisory due to diminishing reports of medical waste on the coast.

Beaches in Ocean City and Assateague State Park, which closed Sept. 15, due to medical waste washing ashore, reopened Friday ...

After substantial amounts of medical waste washed ashore last week, Ocean City and Assateague State Park have now lifted the ...

Several popular beaches along the Maryland and Delaware coast were closed to swimming after medical waste, including needles, washed ashore last week. Swimming was prohibited at beaches that included ...

Several popular public beaches in Maryland and Delaware were closed for the week after medical waste supplies began washing ...

Ocean City Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said in a statement Friday evening that the water has been tested and is ...

The beaches are back open in Ocean City to swimmers and surfers. After what appeared to be medical waste washing up on the beaches of Ocean City over the weekend, with things like tampon applicators, ...

Authorities reopened beaches while some question what appears to be a delayed investigation into the source of the medical ...

Maryland officials closed the island’s beaches last Sunday when about 50 used needles, feminine hygiene products and other ...