Department of Toxic Substance Control

Arnold Schwarzenegger backs down on gutting of California's Green Chemistry Initiative

By Michael Collins Schwarzenegger goes green again on chemical initiative​In the face of withering media coverage in LA Weekly and elsewhere, the Schwarzenegger Administration has pulled an about-face on the gutting of new chemical regulations by the state's Department of Toxic Substances Con ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Chemical Romance

Angering environmentalists, Arnold rewrites his Green Chemistry initiative in his final days in office

Wrinkles in Runkle Canyon

50 Years After a Santa Susana Nuclear Accident Holds Up Land Development

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Maywood RFD California Attorney General Jerry Brown is seeking a court order to impose and monitor reforms on Maywood's troubled police department. L.A. TimesGetting the Lead Out The Department of Toxic Substances Control has discovered San Fernando warehouses containing jewelry that has higher than ... More >>

San Fernando Valley's Galaxy of Chemical Goo

City planners make a slick zone change to allow easier building on troubled land

The Wild Goat Farmer

Should anyone take Adam Gadahn’s terrorist threat seriously?

Quaking Over Belmont

News of fatal fault revealed only after school bond passed

Belmont Reincarnated

Abandoned school project gets unlikely new life

Return to Neverland

L.A. schools superintendent Roy Romer is poised to bring Belmont back from the dead

What Belmont Foes are Saying: Part 3

The Experts

Belmont opponents have relied on the science of these two men

What Belmont Foes are Saying

And why they're wrong

What Belmont Foes are Saying: Part 2

Is This Any Place for a School?

Yes. It's time to finish the Belmont Learning Complex

The Science of Making Belmont Safe

Willie Williams Rerun?

This police chief also looks like a one-termer

What's My Canine?

Troubled Solution

Calls to halt cleanup at William Mead go unheeded

Letters

No Vacancy

The school district's space crunch is much worse than you know. And no one has a plan that will fix it.

Dangerous Dirt

Many critics question cleanup of toxic William Mead

Living Next to a War Factory

Neighbors of closed Aerojet plant worry about their health and water

Shallow Solutions

William Mead residents want a better cleanup plan

Conflicts 101

L.A. schools’ environmental czar dogged by complaints of too many interests

Tempting Belmont

School board can hardly refuse money for safety study of L.A.’s most troubled campus

Belmont Bucks

State might pay for safety study of L.A.’s most troubled school site

Getting Even

The bad blood between Gil Garcetti and his challengers

Her Last Worry

Lucy Esquivel blamed the tainted soil for her cancer

Oozing Asphalt Jungle

Vapor bubbles appear on playground of Cudahy school

Letters

Bell Tolls for Belmont

L.A.’s bungled high school project finally done in by politics and money woes

Toxic Project

State calls for health study of residents at contaminated public-housing project

Home, Sweet Dump

Some 1,400 low-income tenants live atop an old refinery and toxic dump

The Belmont Decision

School board should wait for more studies before ruling on bungled project

DOG GONE IT ALL

Stop Time

School board suspends most work at Belmont, halts all comments

Reform in Reverse

L.A. district accused of backing off clean sites mandate

State Stained in Rocketdyne Scandal

Watchdog agency under fire for colluding with space firm

Belmont’s Beleaguered Bureaucrat

Shambra has his say

Who Poisoned the Well?

Toxic truth haunts LAUSD at Belmont

The saga of a toxic school

A Hard-Driven Man