"This is our Hurricane Katrina—an epochal disaster that's changing Los Angeles," said Dr. David Eisenman, whose research ...

Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said. Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, ...

Urban wildfires like LA’s make harmful chemicals from burning plastics and electronics that can make indoor air dangerous for months.

Optimism…is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” – Voltaire, Candide You, Governor Polis, ...

Air pollution is a well-known risk factor for respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Along with this more than fivefold increase in billion-dollar disasters came rising insurance costs - exacerbated by weather ...

Toxic chemicals from L.A.'s fires are going underreported and pose serious long-term risks, a group of lawmakers says. They ...

South Coast AQMD—the air pollution control agency for all of Orange County and the urban portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties—covers an area of 10,743 square miles that is ...

Los Angeles residents will have to cope with the effects of smoke-related unhealthy air, the Los Angeles County Health ...

Impacts of the LA fires on the the Latino community – the country's largest by percentage – are acute and will be long ...

On Sunday at 11:55 a.m. an updated air quality alert was issued in effect until Monday at noon. The alert is for San ...