Flames ravage but also reveal
California | Local |
April 30, 2008
It was early January. Read more
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Plant faces fines over dust
California | Local |
April 19, 2008
Southern California air regulators on Friday charged a Riverside County cement plant with violating dust-control statutes, days after revelations that the site was believed to be emitting high levels of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium. Read more
Living with the white dust from a cement factory
California | Local |
April 16, 2008
The air above the TXI Riverside Cement Plant was blinding white Tuesday, blocking out the blue sky. Read more
Plant near Riverside is said to emit a carcinogen
California | Local |
April 15, 2008
A cement factory near Riverside is emitting high levels of hexavalent chromium, a toxic carcinogen, from enormous outdoor dust piles blowing downwind across an industrial area and a residential community, the region’s top air regulator told The Times on Monday. Read more
EPA chief weighs risks of greenhouse gases
National |
March 28, 2008
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson has shelved his agency’s findings that greenhouse gases are a danger to the public and on Thursday told Congress that he will initiate a lengthy public comment period about whether such emissions are a risk before responding to a U.S. Supreme Court order. Read more
Bush defends EPA’s rejection of California plea
California | Local |
December 21, 2007
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ignored his
staff’s written findings in denying California’s request for a waiver
to implement its landmark law to slash greenhouse gases from
vehicles, sources inside and outside the agency told The Times on Thursday. Read more
California emissions law rejected
California | Local |
December 20, 2007
The Bush administration Wednesday denied California’s bid to
regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, dealing a blow to
the state’s attempts to combat global warming and prompting an
immediate vow from Gov. Read more
California in Brief / MODJESKA CANYON - Evacuees return after rain subsides
California | Local |
December 2, 2007
Hundreds of residents of this rural eastern Orange County
community returned home late Friday and early Saturday after a
mandatory evacuation was lifted at 8:30 p.m. Read more
Storm brings mud to fire areas
California | Local |
December 1, 2007
Southern California got a break from its dry streak Friday with an
unexpectedly powerful rainstorm that clogged the freeway commute,
unleashed some small mudslides and forced officials in Orange County
to evacuate canyon communities hit by October’s brush fires. Read more
