State Fails to Keep Track of Hazardous Waste
From the Los Angeles Times:
“Year after year the trucks rolled in, dumping loads of sewage sludge and contaminated dirt at a soil-recycling plant in this tiny desert community. Thousands of deliveries were dutifully recorded in a state database. Anyone who checked it would have seen that the plant had no state permit to accept hazardous waste. …
“The episode is emblematic of California’s chronic failure to keep track of thousands of tons of dangerous chemicals and toxic metals shipped for disposal on the state’s roads and railways, a Times investigation found.”