An unprecedented coalition of Native people and other environmental activists fought the State of California to a standstill 15 years ago on a proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in Ward Valley.
It's one of those places in the California desert where you can find yourself 20 miles off the pavement without much problem. It's also where California almost put its final dump for low-level nuclear waste.
On the question of "Does the flow of water out of a concrete channel within a river rank as a 'discharge of a pollutant'?" The Supreme Court says "no."
Would you pay over 1,000 times more for something you could get for free? That's exactly what happens approximately 85 million times every day with bottled water.
Each time it rains in L.A., a toxic soup of pollutants routinely make its way from the city's roadways and rooftops down to our waterways and oceans. A new measure may offer a partial solution.
In a decade, the Los Angeles River has become a rallying ground for Angelenos looking to reclaim a part of their history and revitalize their ecosystem.