The California Department of Toxic Substances Control had planned to weaken rules for hazard waste disposal. An oversight ...

The board that oversees California’s toxic substances agency unanimously voted Thursday to remove a controversial proposal ...

California regulators are recommending the state weaken its hazardous waste disposal rules in a bid to dump contaminated soil at some municipal landfills within the state. State officials say ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

In Los Angeles, crews from the Environmental Protection Agency have started showing up in hazmat suits and digging through all the potential hazardous waste that the wildfires have left behind.