Over three days in late March, four Los Angeles Times environment reporters and an editor fanned out across the Eaton and Palisades burn scars to collect 40 soil samples from residential properties: ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES — In Altadena and the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of L.A., reconstruction has begun despite the fact that the soil on affected properties has not been tested for toxic substances. The ...

The decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers breaks with a long-standing safeguard to ensure no lingering contamination is left behind after wildfires. Army Corps officials are saying that ...

Echoing a similar push from the state last month, several area lawmakers have called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reverse its policy against soil testing after the wildfires, arguing ...