California could ban chrome plating commonly used to restore classic cars and provide protective coating for industrial parts. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) For decades, hexavalent chromium has ...

California plans to delay state-required warnings on metal cans lined with the chemical BPA, arguing too-specific warnings could scare stores and shoppers in poor neighborhoods away from some of the ...

A Southern California freeway was shut down and nearby homes were under evacuation orders Friday as a chemical reaction inside a railroad tank car threatened to cause an explosion, authorities said.

A rail car leaking chemicals in Riverside County, California, on Friday has prompted officials there to evacuate nearly 200 homes over concerns that a "violent explosion" could occur at any moment.

Three decades after Erin Brockovich discovered that hexavalent chromium was sickening residents of a small Mojave Desert community, California’s State Water Board has proposed a long-awaited ...

PLAN ON THURSDAY, A BILL THAT WOULD BAN THE CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS FOUND IN FIREFIGHTER GEAR IS AMONG THE MANY BILLS THE ASSEMBLY PASSED LAST WEEK. THIS IS A PROBLEM. KCRA THREE INVESTIGATES, FIRST ...