Subject: Department of Toxic Substance Control

• Car Alarm

  After saying for decades that treated "shredder waste" from junked cars and old appliances was safe, state regulators now admit it isn't.

  December 3, 2008

• Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

  Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  March 26, 2008

• Stained Rep

  February 14, 2007

• What Lies Beneath

  December 20, 2006

• Toxic Acres

  The fill below Treasure Island is filled with dangerous toxins left by the Navy

  May 24, 2006

• Massing Gas

  San Francisco asks the Navy to investigate potentially dangerous methane concentrations at Hunters Point Shipyard

  January 2, 2002

• Shaky Ground

  Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

  January 5, 2000

• Cothran

  March 17, 1999

• Cothran

  March 10, 1999

• Letters

  March 3, 1999

• Cothran

  February 10, 1999

• Midway to Nowhere

  September 16, 1998

• Where Crime Pays

  Is the DA's Office bungling the biggest pollution case in Bay Area history?

  October 23, 1996

• State Senate Committee Moves to Allow Toxic Waste In County Dumps

  Thanks, Ma: Toxic waste from old cars is still hunky dory in California The California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee today unanimously approved a bill that would block environmental officials from preventing 700,000 tons of toxic waste from being dumped into county landfills each year. As reported in SF Weekly, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control last fall proposed rules that would end a 20-year-old policy of allowing residue from automobile recycling plants to be dumped

  April 27, 2009