Like nervous party hosts, Orange County parks officials unveiled plans Tuesday to reopen badly burned Limestone Canyon and Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park on Saturday after months of laborious prep work.
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Dangerous levels of toxic lead were emitted by a Southern California battery recycling facility for months, until regulators ordered the facility to cut production by almost half, officials said.
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I’m lined up with my neighbors in a ragtag human chain on a chilly Saturday, heaving rocks across a gargantuan pile of mud.
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A 52-year-old woman was fatally shot by a California Highway Patrol officer late Tuesday after brandishing what appeared to be a handgun during a traffic stop in Alhambra, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman said.
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Ah, the smell of a freshly painted room – it could make you sick.Paint fumes are a key ingredient in the dangerous smog still plaguing Southern California, local air regulators say, and paint companies should have to pay for the monitoring of hazardous materials in their industry.
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Preliminary results of tests done on the air at Universal Studios’ smoky back lots Sunday found levels of benzene and other toxic contaminants six times or more above normal.
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A coalition of environmental groups plans to sue the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today to force it to overturn motor vehicle emissions limits for Southern California, charging that the targets fail to address hazardous pollution faced by 1.5 million people who live next to freeways.
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Sierra Madre police and fire officials are getting reports of mudflows this morning in the wake of a wild spring thunderstorm that wreaked havoc across Southern California, flipping a big-rig truck, derailing a freight train and causing widespread traffic delays, property damage and road closures.
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As many as 24,000 deaths annually in California are linked to chronic exposure to fine particulate pollution, triple the previous official estimate of 8,200, according to state researchers.
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Chevron,
BP and other major oil companies have agreed to pay $423 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits brought by water suppliers and users in California and 19 other states over groundwater contaminated with the gasoline additive
MTBE.
In California, 11 plaintiffs would receive more than $78 million plus possible reimbursement for future treatment of nearly 1,100 wells, attorneys said.
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