Proving once again that the internet is good for something other than pornography and pirating music, one of the more useful state agencies you've never heard of, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, has created EnviroStors, an online database of contaminated sites throughout the state. The database, the San Jose Mercury News reports, "includes 8,261 industrial sites, schools, military bases, vacant lots, farms and other properties -- everything from Silicon Valley Superfund s
Courtesy of the state Dept. of Toxic Substances Control...
Orange County Polluter Sentenced to 16 Months in State Prison
Westminster - The California Department of Toxic Substances Control
(DTSC) announced today that an Orange County Superior Court sentenced
Steven Craig Booth, of Anaheim, to 16 months in state prison for
criminal violations relating to his operation of a metalizing business
in Stanton. Booth pled guilty to eight felony and six misdemeanor
charges, including hazardous waste, d
California's Department of Toxic Substances Control, which oversees the ongoing cleanup of a toxic site in Chino Hills which for years had been an Aerojet manufacturing facility, is collecting public comment on its efforts through April 10. Some testimony will be gathered at a hearing Thursday concerning the closing of a unit used to destroy ordnance.
There have been fears that spilled rocket fuel and other nasty stuff from the facility has leeched into the Santa Ana River
