Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration asked FEMA to reverse its decision to skip soil testing after federal cleanup workers remove debris from properties burned in the Eaton and Palisades fires.

With over 16,000 homes and buildings damaged or destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades fires, the toxic ash produced by those fires could make its way into the soil and into fruits and vegetables that ...

To inform those living within and around the Palisades and Eaton Fire zones – a Los Angeles-based organization is leading the effort to sample the soil at more than a thousand properties. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photos by Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times, Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) Over three days in late March, four Los ...

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the fires — then, according to an internal memo obtained by the L.A. Times, ...

Will there be toxins beneath the thousands of homes rebuilt from the firestorns that engulfed areas around Altadena and the Pacific Palisades? We may never know. California lawmakers have blasted a ...

Federal officials have declared they will not order soil sampling after completing debris removal on Los Angeles properties that succumbed to the region’s devastating fires earlier this year, ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

Environmental unit leader Daniel Walsh pours soil samples into a jar from where a house burned in the Mountain fire in Camarillo. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) A group of environmental ...

The Oklahoma State University Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and support ...

The Environmental Protection Agency expects to begin cleaning up soil with high levels of lead and arsenic at Park Crest Elementary School in Garland and in nearby residential areas by the end of ...