Commentary: New York needs a Road Salt Reduction Council to set use limits and move communities toward more sustainable road maintenance practices.

While road salt and gritting have long been the go-to solutions, their detrimental environmental impact and the potential for infrastructure degradation are well-documented. However, a game ...

Cars, lawns and shoes are all susceptible to the havoc road salt can wreak, but some experts say preventative measures can help reduce the damage. In 1996, Americans used 20.1 million tons of road ...

by Sam Hartnett, Community News Service A Senate bill designed to curb chloride contamination from road salt has stalled, but an identical bill in the House is making advances.

“Let’s use our salt as judiciously as possible. Let’s only use what we need to to have safe surfaces.” The City of Madison has worked continually to find the most well-suited recommendations for road ...

The Kansas Department of Transportation used 82,000 tons of road salt in the winter of 2023-2024, and the Missouri Department of Transportation used around 118,196 tons. The U.S. uses ...

A Cambridge councillor is hoping to reduce the amount of road salt used by the city, saying overuse could contaminate groundwater and "kill life." "I mean if you add enough salt to anything, it ...

That’s likely because there’s far less development in those watersheds. Road salt is considered a main driver of the increase, along with sewage treatment plant discharges and water softeners.