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S&W Atlas Iron & Metal was shuttered last year. But it was recently discovered that there may still be toxic material underneath the site that is seeping into the surrounding Watts neighborhood, including nearby Jordan High School.
California search-and-rescue teams have recovered the bodies of all nine missing skiers killed in a devastating avalanche in a remote region of Sierra Nevada
A two-acre Los Angeles oil drill site near the St. Vincent Elementary School in University Park, had been releasing noxious fumes for years. Finally, the wells have been shut down.
California has set aside about $165 million in vouchers to subsidize the purchase of the Tesla Semi — an electric vehicle that critics say is still not road-worthy.
Assemblymember John Harabedian is introducing new legislation that would create statewide science-based standards for the testing and removal of contamination left by wildfires.
The air in Long Beach and other communities near shipping yards is tainted by methyl bromide, a fumigant that was technically banned decades ago.
Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the fires — then, according to an internal memo obtained by the L.A. Times, privately advocated against it.
For months, federal officials have said post-cleanup soil testing for fire-stricken homes in L.A. was unnecessary. Now, they plan to test 100 homes destroyed in the Eaton fire.
We reviewed thousands of pages of Army Corps of Engineering quality assurance reports for the January fire soil cleanup. The results were startling.
