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 ...

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 ...

Materials considered toxic waste by California are being sent to Arizona and winding up in state landfills. This was highlighted in an investigation done by the independent news organization ...

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township in Michigan about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a ...

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a situation ...

With 70 items from dead firefighters strapped to his backpack, firefighter Thomas “Bull” Hill trekked from Key West to Tallahassee on foot in 2018. When he passed through Oakland Park, fire rescue ...

Multiple cities in Southern California are vowing to "shut down" a site being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to collect and process hazardous waste from the devastating Eaton Fire, saying ...

For two weeks, officials have largely declined to answer questions about where wildfire debris will end up. The Times has identified seven landfills that have taken steps to accept this waste.

It’s almost spring, and just in time for your spring cleaning projects, we invite you to bring all of your old, outdated, expired, even unidentifiable hazardous and toxic waste products to Spartanburg ...