CA lawmakers want answers on toxic waste

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At a joint oversight hearing, legislators ask state toxic waste officials about technology and CalMatters investigations.

Industrial tanks and equipment at the Phibro-Tech Inc. plant in Santa Fe Springs on June 7, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMattersState lawmakers held a joint oversight committee hearing Wednesday to question officials from California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control about how it’s going with various reform efforts.

The company has been operating on an expired permit since 1996, a fact that stunned the chairperson of the Assembly’s Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee, Lawmakers also urged the agency to do more research on technologies that would allow contaminated soil to be treated on site as opposed to being dug up and taken to a landfill.

 

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