Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
May 6, 2025
Wildfire debris can be dumped in Calabasas landfill, tentative says
A judge tentatively approved dumping Los Angeles County wildfire debris in Calabasas Landfill, finding no evidence of hazardous waste, as the city has until June 2 to amend its complaint.
Efforts to halt storage of waste and debris from the Los Angeles County wildfires in a Calabasas landfill hit a snag Monday as a judge tentatively granted a demurrer by the county and a sanitation district.
"Petitioner alleges that respondents 'have a statutory duty to ensure that only non-hazardous waste from the fire debris wastes is deposited at the landfill,'" Judge Stephen I. Goorvitch wrote in his tentative ruling, quoting from a petition by the City of Cal...
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