Kettleman City

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. - The Environmental Protection Agency has allowed a central California landfill that local residents blame for birth defects to keep accepting hazardous waste from Superfund sites.

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. - The company that runs the Central California landfill where nearby residents complain that toxins have caused a number of birth defects in their town said Thursday it has cleaned up contaminated areas cited by federal investigators.

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. - It was the day the families of this rural farm community had long awaited.

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. - Maricela Mares-Alatorre was well aware of the industrial and agricultural pollutants that surrounded her as she grew up in this tiny farm town just three miles from the largest toxic waste dump in the West.