Vinyl chloride is a man-made, colorless gas that burns easily and is used to make polyvinyl chloride, a hard plastic.

Some properties are too dangerous for EPA officials and must be made safer by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before ...

Tensions continue to rise in Duarte as people living in the city and surrounding communities protest the EPA’s use of Lario ...

For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...

Malibu city leaders on Tuesday, Feb. 4, said that a site near City Hall eyed as a staging area for household hazardous debris from the Palisades fire will not be available for that use, turning down ...

The next phase of a plan to clean up the Superfund site near Arden Terrace is in the works, but residents there are more concerned about what’s going on with their health. Representatives of the ...

In Southern California, the EPA now faces going through nearly 15,000 structures in one month. They must also face where the ...

“The debris removal mentioned in the Jan. 16 Pollution Report refers to non-asbestos-related materials cleared from the site,” said Stephen McBay, a senior public information officer at the EPA.

Four cities in Southern California are opposing an EPA processing site for "hazardous" waste from Los Angeles County's devastating Eaton Fire.

Protesters have come out in numbers after the EPA revealed plans to use the parking lot of a beloved beach as a toxic waste ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is establishing a second staging site for household hazardous material from the Eaton fire at Charles S. Farnsworth Park in Altadena, the agency announced on ...