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In 2024, a team of scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara discovered evidence low-level radioactive waste was dumped in the ocean during the 1960s. The material was probably dumped by California Salvage, a now-defunct company that also dumped DDT in the ocean during the 1960s. [3] [4]
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped. They were designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. Hyperion is operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department ...
Southern California will remain under a red flag warning as winds of 30-50 mph and low humidity continue throughout the area until Wednesday at 6 p.m., according to the National Weather Service ...
Sewage sludge treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater.Sewage sludge is produced from the treatment of wastewater in sewage treatment plants and consists of two basic forms — raw primary sludge and secondary sludge, also known as activated sludge in the case of the activated sludge process.
California is tackling the problem of textile and fashion waste with the country’s first law that requires clothing companies to implement a recycling system for the garments they sell.
CBS News. L.A. fire maps show Palisades, Eaton and more fires in California right now. Weather. Associated Press. What to know about the devastation from the Los Angeles-area fires.