Workers remove debris from the property of a home lost to the Palisades fire on Feb. 19. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) California environmental regulators are considering rolling back the ...

In September 2020, workers in Brawley near the Mexico border began loading dump trucks with soil from the site of an old pesticide company. As an excavator carefully placed the Imperial County waste ...

California milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol, the one with the chasing arrows, potentially threatening the ...

After a nearly 30-year vacation from the bond markets, the Western Placer Waste Management Authority, California, returns next week with $97 million of solid waste revenue bonds. S&P Global Ratings ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s environmental board voted 4-1 to approve the state’s first hazardous waste management plan despite ...

CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) — California shouldn't weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that currently goes to two specialized disposal sites in the Central Valley and ...

Two months after state lawmakers passed sweeping legislation designed to reduce plastic waste, they’ve ponied up and passed more than a half-dozen new bills that will further reduce and clean up ...

As American cannabis has grown from cottage industry to $25 billion-a-year commercial enterprise that employs 428,059 folks nationwide, the product that weed has become now often bears little ...

While attitudes around waste collection and the blue-collar work it entails have rightfully shifted to cast this invaluable ...

California environmental regulators are considering rolling back the state's hazardous waste disposal rules, potentially permitting some municipal landfills to accept more contaminated soil from ...

A California environmental oversight board approved a state plan outlining strategies to safely reduce hazardous waste — despite sharp criticism from environmental groups who say several aspects of ...