<div><p>State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of infant birth defects in an impoverished San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the West's largest toxic waste dump.</p><p>The officials told a packed meeting of the Kings County Board of Supervisors that ...

<div><p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered two state agencies to investigate a rash of birth defects that have confounded impoverished Kettleman City for more than a year.</p><p>Schwarzenegger's intervention into a bitter environmental battle came as a surprise and relief to both residents and the activists who have ...

<div id="subtitle">Toxic waste facility refuses to take radioactive waste from partial nuclear meltdown site</div><div><p>The largest toxic waste facility in the West rejected a proposal by Boeing Co. and NASA to accept tainted soil from the site of a partial nuclear meltdown.</p><p ...