Economic indicators give a quick glimpse of how the economy is doing. They include traditional measures such as consumer confidence indexes, sales tax revenue and home prices. An offbeat economic ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a scrap metal recycler in Watts to take action to prevent chemicals from washing into local storm drains and drifting onto the campus of a ...

BRISTOL, Va. - Metal theft continues to be a problem across the country -- desperate criminals are taking manhole covers, active electrical wires, or anything that can be sold to a recycler for quick ...

A law meant to deter metal theft will take effect July 22, but that’s not soon enough for farmer Dan Herring. Two weeks ago, somebody stole a quarter-mile-long copper electricity wire from his ...

Closing the loop with maximum carbon efficiency means letting scrap metal find its most suitable home, say recyclers. Metal trade ensures all qualities of raw materials are processed and get to ...

Among the 15 or so people in the cool, air-conditioned center are the Rev. Gerald Britt, a vice president of public policy and community program development for CitySquare; Cherelle Blazer, an ...

To some, they are eyesores. High fences and landscaping often surround the properties to obscure views of the wrecked autos, abandoned appliances and piles of metal refuse inside. 'The scrap metal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The owners of a controversial metal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Workers at several Los Angeles recycling ...

Shreds of aluminum, strings of copper and odd hunks of bronze flow down Davis Street in San Leandro, carried in the beds of pickups and the sometimes bloodied hands of men. These morsels of metal get ...