Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
California has some of the toughest hazardous waste laws in the country, which makes this next story even more astonishing than it would have been anyway.
The Los Angeles Times published an investigative piece this week that highlights enormous flaws in how the state tracks toxic waste. This is how big the problem is: 174,000 tons of waste has gone missing over the last five years. Nobody knows what happened to it.
Los Angeles Times reporter Jessica Garrison joins the show to explain.