Vinyl chloride is a man-made, colorless gas that burns easily and is used to make polyvinyl chloride, a hard plastic.

The company, SPS Technologies, has a history of environmental and workplace violations, records show. Residents were sheltering in place and worried about the air quality.

An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." ...

Thousands of layoffs could be coming at America's defense agencies after the Trump administration asked to see a list of probationary employees.

You may think we have too many nuclear weapons. Or you may think we don’t have enough. One thing you most certainly do not think, however, is that we should arbitrarily fire the people who keep these ...

The Trump administration has fired scores of FEMA employees in a historic purge that could undermine the agency’s ability to ...

A freeze on the hiring and onboarding of thousands of federal firefighters could have deadly consequences as the national ...

The fourth week was more of the same, as the president seeks to reshape the federal government and the court system.

President Donald Trump's administration said some federal government employees who took the "Fork in the Road" buyout offer ...

A view shows the logo of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), after probationary staff at the OPM were fired in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the building, outside OPM in ...

Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and ...

U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...