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Days after local residents and environment activists raised complaints of alleged illegal dumping of municipal waste and trash burning in the ecologically sensitive area of Gaimukh Naka – with the ...

Contaminated soil, waste oil and mixed oil are the state's three largest annual sources of hazardous waste. On average, more than 567,000 tons (514,373 metric tons) of toxic soil are produced ...

“I don’t think that municipal waste landfills were ever designed to accept this kind of waste, and to deregulate it … puts those landfill communities” at risk, said Jane Williams ...

Matt Holmes with the California Environmental Justice Coalition gives a speech before Thursday's Board of Environmental Safety public hearing in Cypress, Calif., Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo ...

CYPRESS, Calif. — 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 ...