State regulators are getting ahead of federal policies in an effort to control a toxic pollutant used in preparing logs for export to China. The action being taken by the state Department of ...

Five facilities near schools and houses in L.A. County fumigate produce shipped from overseas with methyl bromide. But the air agency doesn’t plan to monitor the air or take any immediate steps to ...

Methyl bromide is a popular agricultural fumigant that can kill fungi, insects, weeds, nematodes, and bacteria. Unfortunately, it also depletes stratospheric ozone. Now researchers have devised a ...

After discovering high levels of a toxic pesticide in West Long Beach, city officials — alongside several state and federal regulatory agencies — are working to limit the chemical’s presence in the ...

The government has uncovered a methyl bromide scandal within the Department of Plant Protection (DPP) and suspended a suspicious company's licence, while halting shipments worth $1 million. Amid a ...