The pollution from road salt has only become a major problem in recent years. Looking at the chart below, the United States ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) says statewide about 404,000 tons of road salt are used every year.

Now, she said Apalachee and other vendors are busy delivering road salt to customers of American Rock Salt, a Mount Morris-based mine which is in charge of salt supply 30 counties. "Our phone ...

is grappling with the local and statewide road salt shortage. The town's highway superintendent, Jim Christ, expressed frustration over the dwindling supply and delivery delays from American Rock ...

The city didn’t actually spread more salt than usual. But it may have seemed that way, according to the Sanitation Department, because there was less snow and rain.

Legislation introduced recently in the state Assembly would allow local governments to purchase road salt from Canada.

They won’t give us a commitment of when the rock salt is going to be due.” On Tuesday morning we caught up with Rensselaer residents who struggled to get to work. “All the little back roads ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Road salt's impact on DMV waterways is an issue that researchers from the University of Maryland have been working on for more than 20 years. Dr. Sujay Kaushal is one of ...

"It's the only rock we eat," writes The Salt ... to various herb-infused blends."" But for road salt, geologist Yellen said, we don't need high levels of purity "and so we can use a variety ...

Road salt supply crises are periodic, depending on the frequency of winter precipitation in any given year. It’s not as if the world’s supply of rock salt becomes depleted. One of my required ...