Federal and state officials say the temporary sites for processing hazardous waste pose no threat, but residents are worried about their air and water. By Kate Selig Jesus Jiménez and Mimi Dwyer ...

The Times has identified seven landfills that have taken steps to accept this waste. Residents and experts are concerned about the fact that these sites were not intended to accept hazardous waste ...

Enraged SoCal residents are protesting makeshift toxic waste dumps they say threaten their drinking water and natural environment with chants of “find another place” at furious meetings.

More rain is on the way to SoCal, and residents living near Will Rogers State Beach – which has been chosen as a Palisades Fire toxic waste processing site – are worried the precipitation will ...

In a heated community meeting, furious residents assailed federal officials for trucking electric vehicle batteries and other ...

Protests have broken out after a dozen containers containing toxic waste arrived for disposal at a local plant in Pithampur Vegetable vendor Shivnarayan Dasana had never seen so many policemen ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Researchers present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling poly-cotton textile waste. The process starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using ...

Lario Park, located 15 miles east of Altadena has been selected as a processing site for hazardous materials from the Eaton fire, but city leaders and residents say they were not consulted and ...

Experts acknowledge residents' concerns, but say hazardous waste is not necessarily harmful as long as safety measures are in place and the waste is not stored on site for years. At a town hall ...

Loved ones are rallying around a Southern California man who spent decades volunteering with Operation Santa after he lost his home in the Palisades fire. Philip Alderton spent many Christmas ...

The town has been tense since containers holding 337 tonnes of toxic waste from the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters arrived for disposal three weeks ago. The waste ...