California launches internal audit over Cabazon toxic waste facility
Friday, June 3, 2011 - 01:00
in Earth & Climate
Schoolchildren were sickened by noxious odors from a facility on the Cabazon reservation. The federal EPA has ordered toxic waste disposal on the site to cease.California environmental regulators have launched an internal audit to determine why their agency sanctioned a Coachella Valley recycling facility to accept tons of toxic waste that, in part, was the source of noxious odors that sickened children at a nearby elementary school.