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.

A road salt shortage across Central New York has left public works crews and everyday homeowners scrambling to get enough salt to keep ice off all the area’s roads, sidewalks and driveways.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...