ST PAUL, Minn. — If you suspect that your soil is to blame for your yard's poor performance, all you need is a bag of it and a couple of dollars to get a detailed analysis from the University of ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration asked FEMA to reverse its decision to skip soil testing after federal cleanup workers remove debris from properties burned in the Eaton and Palisades fires.

Soil is more than just dirt under your feet. It is foundational for homes and healthy lawns and gardens. It’s important. Ensuring it is composed of the right “stuff" is essential for making sure it is ...

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the fires — then, according to an internal memo obtained by the L.A. Times, ...

To inform those living within and around the Palisades and Eaton Fire zones – a Los Angeles-based organization is leading the effort to sample the soil at more than a thousand properties. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photos by Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times, Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) Over three days in late March, four Los ...

Environmental unit leader Daniel Walsh pours soil samples into a jar from where a house burned in the Mountain fire in Camarillo. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) A group of environmental ...

The Oklahoma State University Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and support ...

Will there be toxins beneath the thousands of homes rebuilt from the firestorns that engulfed areas around Altadena and the Pacific Palisades? We may never know. California lawmakers have blasted a ...