Tony Briscoe
Reporter at Los Angeles Times
air quality and environmental health reporter @LATimes | past bylines @ProPublica and @ChicagoTribune | Michigan State alum | email ➡️ [email protected]
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate defied congressional norms and voted Wednesday to revoke California’s progressive vehicle emission standards that would’ve effectively ban the sale of new gasoline-only cars by 2035. In a 51 to 44 vote, the Senate overturned a Biden-era waiver that enabled California and a contingent of Democrat-led states to enforce zero-emission requirements for the sale of new passenger vehicles.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe
A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently required to be dumped at sites specifically designated and approved for hazardous waste. Earlier this year, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) released a draft of its first-ever Hazardous Waste Management Plan, a document intended to guide the state’s strategy on dangerous waste.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty
A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires. Nearly a dozen university professors wrote a letter Wednesday to Gov.
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4 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Hayley Smith
New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metals at homes destroyed by January’s catastrophic wildfires and cleared by federal cleanup crews. The county health department hired Roux Associates Inc. to conduct soil sampling at 30 homesites that had been cleaned up by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — the federal agency leading debris-removal operations for the Eaton and Palisades wildfires.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty |Hayley Smith
Over three days in late March, four Los Angeles Times environment reporters and an editor fanned out across the Eaton and Palisades burn scars to collect 40 soil samples from residential properties: 10 in each burn area from properties where debris removal was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers and 10 in each burn area from the yards of standing homes.
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RT @NarroVictor: New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metal…
RT @Sammy_Roth: After the Eaton & Palisades fires, federal agencies refused to test for toxic metals in the soil of burned homes. So a team…
RT @latimes: When FEMA failed to test soil for toxic substances after the L.A. fires, The Times had it done. The results were alarming http…
