Before then, the Montrose Chemical Company legally manufactured DDT and used the Torrance, California, sewer system to dump its tainted waste water, a practice also legal at the time. For more ...
"This DDT pollution happened several decades ago ... detailed the little-known history of ocean dumping off the Southern ...
TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...
The waters that support Southern California face a wide range of environmental threats. New studies suggest the next 25 years ...
It’s worse that we have DDT compounds spread across a wide area ... who might have been dumping waste in the area. One of ...
After days of multiple wildfires across Southern California in extreme heat, a drop in temperatures has finally given crews a chance to gain the upper hand, though lingering risks remain, ...
California's Proposition 5 asks voters to lower the threshold required for local bond measures proposed by cities, counties and other districts throughout the state.
A CalMatters analysis shows that many California cities with the biggest recent population booms are the same places that will experience the most high heat days. The combination of a ...
Hatch watch is underway in the Southern California mountains. Three bald eagle chicks could ... American bald eagles teetered on the brink of extinction until the pesticide DDT was banned in the 1970s ...
Researchers and advocates are worried about low survival rates for osprey chicks in the bay this year. Can the menhaden ...