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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announces final standards to reduce pollution from power plants during an event at Howard University on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

During visit to South L.A., EPA head vows to address environmental injustices in Watts

Michael Regan said the EPA is working with state and federal partners to address elevated lead levels in drinking water in South L.A. communities.

Oct. 5, 2024
Sewage water filled with trash flow down the Tijuana River on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Imperial Beach, California. (Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

The Tijuana River smells so bad, the CDC is coming to investigate

Oct. 4, 2024
SOMES BAR, CA - AUGUST 15, 2024: Wearing wet suits, biologists maneuver a net to capture juvenile Coho salmon, Chinook salmon and steelhead trout in Wooley Creek, a tributary to the Salmon River which is one of the largest tributaries to the Klamath River on August 15, 2024 in Somes Bar, California. The Coho and Chinook are tagged with a monitoring device and also fin clipped for a genetic study.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Klamath River dam removal brings hope for threatened salmon

Oct. 4, 2024
LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019: 1200 federally endangered Delta Smelt that were hatched at the UC Davis Fish Conservation & Culture Lab, swim around a holding tank after being transferred from the lab to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif., on April 10, 2019. The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is setting the stage for the public debut of the most reviled fish in the western United States: the federally endangered Delta smelt, a minnow on the brink of extinction that is at the heart of a bitter struggle over the use of California?s most important estuary. The exhibit in the aquarium?s new $53-million ?Pacific Visions? wing intends to use a school of Delta smelt to focus attention on the challenge of restoring habitat for the species while ensuring a sustainable water supply for the state of 40 million people. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Decision to reduce water flows in California’s delta sparks debate over imperiled fish

Oct. 2, 2024
Sun Valley, CA, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 -Workers assemble ultraviolet systems at the LADWP Tujunga Spreading Grounds facility, where the agency is treating contaminated groundwater from the San Fernando Valley basin. The groundwater became contaminated years ago after toxic chemicals seeped into the basin. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Honeywell will fund cleanup of contaminated groundwater in San Fernando Valley, EPA says

Oct. 1, 2024

Where to get free trees in Los Angeles and Orange counties

Sept. 26, 2024

Some in this California beach town insist the Tijuana River is poisoning them. Officials disagree

Sept. 27, 2024

June gloom in September? Deep marine layer envelops Los Angeles region

Sept. 25, 2024

Los Angeles settles with Monsanto for $35 million over PCBs in waterways

Sept. 25, 2024
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