For years, toxic and slightly radioactive red mud and dust from the waste ponds of a shuttered alumina plant have bothered neighborhoods near Gonzales. But local leaders are working on a solution to ...

Bonds have been approved to help finance a new $850 million facility that would recycle red mud pond waste from an alumina plant in St. James Parish. The board of trustees for the Louisiana Public ...

Ascension Parish government drainage workers are preparing to cap a 4-acre section of the "red mud" waste ponds at a closed refinery in hopes of controlling dust that has plagued nearby neighborhoods ...

SORRENTO, La. (WAFB) - Residents in parts of Ascension Parish have become all too familiar with the red dust that grazes the skies. The dust problem’s persistence has led the head of the state’s ...