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 ...

Trucks hauling material to the Waste Management landfill site just outside Kettleman City, home to the largest toxic waste dump in the western U.S., in December 2009. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) A ...

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 ...

Unwanted and old chemical reagents need to be removed; The satellite accumulation waste container is full and There is more than 5 gallons of hazardous waste or one quart of acutely hazardous waste ...

A Waste Management landfill outside Kettleman City, Calif., is one of two sites statewide that are permitted to accept hazardous waste. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) A California environmental ...

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 ...

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 revising ...