Metal Pollutants Still Deemed Safe Despite Toxics Departments Internal Warnings

Metal shredder residue would be the single biggest hazardous waste stream in the state—if the state’s toxics regulators classified all of it that way. Why the Department of Toxic Substances Control has failed to do so is the subject of a decade-long debate, which calls into question the department’s effectiveness. Vicky Nguyen reports in an ongoing series about environmental regulation. This story aired on September 5, 2013