Waste Material

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing that a Lynwood manufacturing plant be granted a permit to continue operating a hazardous-waste incinerator that neighbors have complained emits noxious odors. The EPA is satisfied that Cargill Inc.'

A tributary of Upper Newport Bay will receive millions of gallons of treated waste water during a two-year pilot program approved Monday. The water will be monitored frequently by the Irvine Ranch Water District to make sure it does not adversely affect the bay's fragile ecosystem. Here's how the treatment works and where monitoring station will be located: Treatment Reclaimed water is made by removing 90% of the solids from waste water.

Some newspapers or TV network, someone, has got to have the guts to perform a fundamental classification even before a review is written. Films that are blatant in their profit motive must not be discussed. These would include 99% of all movies that are into their third sequel or beyond. It would include Steven Seagal movies, death movies, teen-age murder movies. I admit the call could be a bit complicated, particularly if we define the movie business as fundamentally a business . But we could at least recognize the semblance of an honest effort or an attempt toward integrity, and we could reward those efforts with a review.

A barge carrying waste material for the Exxon Chemical Co. ruptured as it was being unloaded today, spilling up to 400,000 gallons of water mixed with lesser amounts of alcohol and oil into the Grand River, state police said. The barge owned by Palmer Barge Co. was carrying the waste for the subsidiary of Exxon Corp. when a tank in the barge buckled, releasing "300,000 to 400,000 gallons of combustible material," said Lt. Ronnie Jones of the state police. Jones said the company immediately placed booms in the river to contain the spill and sent cleanup crews from New Orleans to the swampy site, about 70 miles west of the city.

The Energy Department has quietly sold West Germany $20-million worth of highly radioactive cesium and strontium and is seeking to clear the way for its shipment from Hanford, Wash., to the Pacific Coast, then through the Panama Canal and across the Atlantic. It would be the first large-scale export of high-level nuclear waste material, and officials of the environmental activist organization Greenpeace said Thursday that they would attempt to block the shipments.

The Energy Department has quietly sold West Germany $20-million worth of highly radioactive cesium and strontium and is seeking to clear the way for its shipment from Hanford, Wash., to the Pacific Coast, then through the Panama Canal and across the Atlantic. It would be the first large-scale export of high-level nuclear waste material, and officials of the environmental activist organization Greenpeace said Thursday that they would attempt to block the shipments.

"Emperor" Bob Hudson, a veteran Southern California disc jockey who also dubbed himself "Beautiful Bob," has died at 66. Hudson died in his sleep early Saturday at his Monrovia home. A master of the giant put-on, Hudson was on the air from the 1950s through the 1980s on several Southern California stations, initially anointing himself "emperor" on KRLA.

Last month, chemical vials and medical waste washed ashore at beaches in Orange and San Diego counties. Discovery of the jetsam alarmed environmental officials and caused Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) to demand a U.S. Navy investigation into the source of the dumped material, suspected of being military issue. On Wednesday, Wilson and the public unfortunately received only part of an answer from the Navy.

State investigators probing the blast that killed two Rocketdyne physicists last year believe the men were improperly disposing of explosive waste rather than conducting technical experiments, as Rocketdyne officials have stated. A report by state occupational health and safety officials says the test explosion that killed Otto K. Heiney and Larry A.