After years of negotiation with college officials and associations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a proposed rule that would ease the waste-management burden in academe. The rule ...

In 1997 inspectors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency visited the University of Hawaii and found thousands of containers of hazardous chemicals stashed in an old fallout shelter beneath the ...

Federal regulators announced Wednesday they had reached an agreement with the controversial Denka Performance Elastomer plant in LaPlace over violations of hazardous waste rules related to its ...

Workers remove debris from the property of a home lost to the Palisades fire on Feb. 19. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) California environmental regulators are considering rolling back the ...

California environmental regulators are considering rolling back the state's hazardous waste disposal rules, potentially permitting some municipal landfills to accept more contaminated soil from ...