U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: GMO Blues First Summer Corn

When you Google Monsanto, the website link has both the company's name and its slogan -- A Sustainable Agriculture Company. It's a website that works very hard from the first click to reframe the conversation around the most controversial issue in worldwide agriculture. Perhaps with good reason. ... More >>

Eat Your Fish Sandwich, Live Longer

Eating fish could reduce your risk of dying by more than 25%, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington. Scientists found that older adults with the highest levels of fatty acids found in fish lived 2.2 years longer on average than those wit ... More >>

Feds Dig Up Leaky 10,000-Gallon Tanks From Under Compton Gas Station Razed in L.A. Riots

There used to be a combination Arco gas station and AM/PM market at Rosecrans and Alameda in Compton -- a smoggy little spot beneath the train-track overpass. During the L.A. Riots, however, 20 years ago to the month...

EPA Penalizes Ventura County Construction Company for Illegal Dumping Near Endangered Species

​The Calleguas Creek runs about 30 miles long up near Oxnard, delivering freshwater to Mugu Lagoon, a partially enclosed body of water that is home to several endangered species. In 2005 and 2006, Ventura County contractor Thomas Staben dumped 40,000 cubic yards of harmful materials - about 2,00 ... More >>

Air Pollution Monitors Could Come to L.A. Freeways

By Taylor Freitas For Southern Californians living near freeways, in what we at LA Weekly call "Black Lung Lofts," breathing in dirty air has been a concern for years, and it's one that's been neglected by Los Angeles and federal officials. The highly publicized Children's Health Study, released b ... More >>

L.A.'s Sewage Crap Export Flap

Each week, enough black sludge to fill Staples Center arrives in Kern County

EPA Orders $20 Million Worth of Groundwater Cleanup to Help Residents of San Gabriel Valley

​Tap water has a bad rap these days. And in many cases, for good reason. There's an awful lot of groundwater contamination out there. But for those folks living in the San Gabriel Valley who - God forbid - like being able to actually drink their tap water, there was a splash of good news today ... More >>

L.A. Doctors Sue EPA Over Smog

Ben Amstutz via Flickr​A group of pissed off doctors in L.A. are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to clamp down on smog. In November 1990, the South Coast Air Basin region, which stretches from Malibu to Laguna Niguel, was given the worst possible rating of "ex ... More >>

Chrome-Plating Shop in Van Nuys Fined for Improperly Storing Toxic Sludge Near Valley Residents

Google MapsCrown Chrome Plating: jewel of the Valley.​If you lived anywhere near Van Nuys Boulevard and Roscoe in the Valley before spring 2009 -- time to get righteous. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, you might have been exposed to some improperly stored hazardous wastes at ... More >>

EPA Orders Tire Plant on Indian Reservation in Coachella Valley to Clean Up, Reduce Fire Risk

​Less than a month after a potentially hazardous fire erupted at a tire recycling plant on Indian land in the Coachella Valley, federal environmental regulators have ordered the company, Consolidated Tire Recyclers, to clean up its act. Under the order, according to the Environmental Protection A ... More >>

Toxic Dump Near Famed Restaurant The Hitching Post is One Step Closer to Getting Cleaned Up

​The town of Casmalia, about an hour north of Santa Barbara and just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, is best known as home of The Hitching Post restaurant, one of the best steak joints in the country and winner of the 2010 National Beef Backer Award. But the old railroad boom-town is not exac ... More >>

Low Levels of Radiation Found in West Coast Milk: Far Below Levels of Concern, According to the EPA

Flickr/Ashley R. GoodNo need to fear milkshakes.​ According to reports from the New York Times and Associated Press, low levels of radioactive iodine from the compromised Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan have been found in milk in California and Washington state. Last week, tests of mi ... More >>

Higher Nuclear Radiation From Japan Detected in California, Other Western Region States

Fukushima.​Don't bite down on that suicide pill just yet, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says radiation levels at West Coast monitors are up slightly. The readings follow last week's arrival of radiation from Japan's ailing Fukushima nuclear reactors, which are in dire straights ... More >>

Nearly Half of U.S. EPA's West Coast Radiation Monitors Might be Out Sick (Good Timing)

FoxBeware the EPA.​We've been telling your for almost two weeks now that radiation from Japan was headed our way, but not to worry. We are your friend. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported this week that trace amounts of the Fukushima nuclear power plant radiation was detected ... More >>

Japanese Radiation Reaches Southern California: Feds Say Don't Trip

A gift from Fukushima (which was an American design).​It's here. Radiation from Japan's ailing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was detected in Southern California by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors this week. The trace amounts found in Riverside and Anaheim were said by ... More >>

Radiation From Japan a No-Show in Los Angeles, But Does Arrive in Northern California

FoxHomer would be bummed.​Updated after the jump: Radiation detected in Sacramento. Should you worry about the weekend's rain? Lot of build up. No payoff. (Sorry to disappoint). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency radiation monitoring system in L.A. has found nothing above daily "back ... More >>

$3 Million For More Water: Glendale, Burbank, North Hollywood Included in Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Site

There are so many great uses for clean water​The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces two settlements -- for a total of over $3 million -- with companies believed to be responsible for "industrial" chemicals in the soil and groundwater in areas including parts of Glendale, North Hol ... More >>

Hydraulic 'Fracking' -- New Oil-Drilling Technique -- Could Create Jobs, Poison Tap Water in California

What's a little contamination in the name of the drill?​The nation was abuzz yesterday with highly unsustainable news of a fresh way to squeeze millions more barrels of oil from the deepest Earthstuffs of America the Beautiful: It's called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" among Big Oil exec ... More >>

EPA Getting $17 Million From Polluters to Help Cleanup Toxic Landfill in Monterey Park

​A long-standing toxic landfill in Monterey Park, 10 miles east of Downtown LA, is on the verge of getting another multi-million dollar cleanup. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is working on a settlement with 275 former polluters who would pay $17 million toward cl ... More >>

Elon Musk's Super-Green Hawthorne Company SpaceX Gets $45,600 EPA Fine For Mishandling Hazardous Materials

​We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried: Elon Musk, the love-him, hate-him chief of electric-car company Tesla Motors -- the Bay Area automaker with the green-friendly halo over its head -- is also the leader of a Hawthorne company that just received a slap on the wrist by federal official ... More >>

L.A. Tops List Of American Cities With The Most Green Buildings

mccarthycook.comThe Trident Center in West L.A.​Los Angeles topped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of major American cities with the most energy efficient buildings, the EPA announced Tuesday. This marks the second year in a row L.A. was tops in green buildings. L.A. has the l ... More >>

Northrop Grumman-U.S. Agreements: Cause and Effect?

Nuclear aircraft carrier T. Roosevelt​Call it robbing the Pentagon to pay Paul. Wednesday  defense-contracting giant Northrop Grumman announced it had won two bids with the Army and Navy worth nearly $6 billion -- then Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency said it had reached a settlem ... More >>

EPA Awards Million Trees L.A. Initiative

Last Thursday, two days after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave his "State of the City" address and touted his questionable environmental record, the United States Environmental Protection Agency appeared to throw the self-described "green" mayor a much-needed bone. L.A. Mayor Antonio Vill ... More >>

MTA's Toxic Towers in Van Nuys

Metro wants to cram 2,000 renters onto land that faces a Chevron oil plant

Fighting About How to Fight Global Warming

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A solar White House

The Lost Streams of Los Angeles

Uncovering our wet and wild past. Is it safe, or even possible, to let the water flow again?

Beaches of Shame

Why can’t we keep our oceans clean?

The Crisco Kid

Brian Friedman wants you to fill 'er up with veggie oil

Music Picks

For the week of April 7-13

Things to Do Before You Get Pregnant

Take folic acid. Buy a new house. Get your mercury tested.

Green to the Core? — Part 2

The Air That We Breathe

Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

Solving Smog

Our suggestions for ways out of this mess

Lost in the Smog

Environmentalists say the energy industry helped write Clear Skies. Yeah? So what else is new?

Reason To Wheeze

The governor runs out of gas for major clean-air fight

12 Man-Made Disasters

The Great Wet Hope

Will Measure O remake Los Angeles? Only if voters know it exists

What’s Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

Fire, smog, golf courses . . . and maybe even coffee-loving, rock-climbing hipsters like you

War on the States

Key decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court’s mixed crusade against states’ rights

Harvest of Pain

The long, hard journey from Central Valley seed to caesar salad

Coughing Up a Plan

Clean-air strategy falls short

Letters

Little Caesars

The Back Story

A Reading List

Beginning To See the Light

The power crisis and its global warning

Them

California takes on the Fire Ant

It's a Wonderful Half-Life

Rocketdyne’s Red Glare

Oh! My Darling

Meat processor offends neighbors here, nationwide