Just when Baltimore County highway officials thought they were safe from the nightmare of ice, snow, freezing rain and complaints about unplowed streets, along comes the slag menace — 40,000 tons of ...

MUSCATINE, Ia. — Dust from waste material used to cover Muscatine County's gravel roads could be hurting the health of rural area children, a new report says. Dust from the slag, a byproduct from ...

The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road builders/contractors, academic researchers, material suppliers, and consultants in our ...

The use of coal slag in abrasive blasting at Newport News Shipbuilding is more widespread than originally reported. The slag, a gritty coal-waste byproduct, contains trace amounts of beryllium, a ...

The steel slag drawn from furnaces of steel mills will be turned to eco-friendly use for land-filling in road construction and for construction of other projects, sources said. In what is seen as a ...

Concerns are being raised about the health impact of a byproduct from the steel-making process being used on gravel roads in eastern Iowa. Muscatine County leaders have suspended the use of steel ...

A rocky, rust-colored slag often spread on icy streets in Palmerton and throughout the Lehigh Valley has high levels of lead that could endanger health, says a Palmerton environmental group. Palmerton ...

Developed countries like Japan, USA have taken lead in making fertilisers as slag silicate fertiliser, by-produced lime fertiliser, slag phosphate fertiliser or iron matter of special fertiliser using ...