"Proposed hazardous waste oversight changes are years behind schedule and fail to account for a community’s health risks from pollution, environmental groups warn."
"Wherever they turn, residents in and around Santa Fe Springs, California, contend with toxic hazards.
A freight rail line runs through the city’s bustling business district that includes steel fabricators, chemical manufacturers, chrome platers and warehouses operating a stone’s throw from a tidy residential neighborhood of trim lawns and well-kept gardens. Santa Fe Springs, located about 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, is bordered on two sides by traffic-choked freeways that bring droves of soot-belching diesel trucks.
Groundwater beneath the eastern portion of Santa Fe Springs is contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals such as perchloroethylene and trichloroethene so much so the entire groundwater plume is on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund list of the nation’s worst cleanup sites."
