Birth Defects
FRESNO, Calif. - 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.
KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. - An Environmental Protection Agency official says he will visit a California farm town near the largest toxic waste dump in the West, but the agency has no plans to investigate birth defects there.
LOS ANGELES - A county board in central California has approved the expansion of the largest toxic-waste dump in the West, despite concerns about an increase in birth defects.
