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A backhoe scrapes 6 inches of dirt at a house on Las Casas Avenue in Pacific Palisades in June. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) It’s a number thousands of Palisades and Eaton fire survivors have ...

Cadmium contamination in agricultural soils is a growing global concern, threatening food safety, crop productivity, and human health. New research shows that not all biochars work the same way and ...

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the ...

After initially resisting calls, federal regulators will test the soil at 100 properties in the Eaton Fire burn scar.

The U.S. Air Force is providing the opportunity for the public to comment on a planned time-critical removal action, or TCRA, aiming to address soil contamination on the west side of Hill Air Force ...

So-called forever chemicals or PFAS compounds are a growing environmental problem. An innovative approach to treating ...

Elected officials in California are calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing on properties destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades ...

When petroleum-contaminated soil is discovered, the first instinct is likely to clean it up right away. But the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) takes a different approach. In part, ...

A controversial plan to build an artificial turf field at the historic Zabriskie-Schedler House in Ridgewood has been delayed indefinitely after the soil used to build a noise reduction berm was found ...