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The vote followed hours of emotional testimony from southeast Los Angeles County residents who demanded Lineage do more to suppress sickening odors.
The Los Angeles Times finds that residents near Chiquita Canyon are not the only ones suffering from heinous conditions near landfills.
The operator of a cold storage warehouse that burned in Boyle Heights has said it expects to spend $80 million to $100 million to clean up the site.
Boyle Heights activists are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to order a mandatory evacuation of the neighborhood, saying a recent warehouse fire has poisoned the air.
The warehouse fire exposed residents to smoke and soot that was worse than the 2025 Los Angeles County fires.
Toxic air has covered the San Gabriel Valley and beyond at times, as the fire continues to burn and the wind shifts the pall in different directions.
The genre-defying singer-songwriter and Santa Cruz native was one of six killed when two helicopters collided Sunday morning in Brazil.
Police rescued 31 neglected dogs from a hot, unventilated U-Haul truck near Temecula. The owner was arrested and faces 21 felony animal cruelty charges.
So far this year, the South Coast air basin, which includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, has seen 39 days when the concentration of lung-irritating ozone exceeded the federal standard, according to preliminary state air quality data.
In response to questions from The Times, the O.C. Healthcare Agency said it did not dispute statements that vapors were released from the pressurized tank on May 21.
