EJ Groups Plan Protest Of CalEPA, DTSC Over Slow Pace Of Site Cleanups

August 26, 2021
A coalition of environmental justice (EJ) and community groups is planning a major protest of CalEPA and the California toxics department over their alleged failure to clean up a host of contaminated sites across the state, as part of a longstanding strategy to spur more responsive actions by the agencies. “These state agencies have broken their commitment to work with industry to reduce the generation of hazardous waste in order to lessen the amount of toxics dumped at commercial facilities,”...


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