Santa Clarita Valley residents living near the Chiquita Canyon Landfill have renewed their calls to Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency for the possible health impacts they are dealing with due to toxic fumes escaping from the landfill.
Over the years, the landfill has been targeted in thousands of complaints over concerns of pollution and the odor, and now people say that there's a cancer cluster as a result of those issues.
'In addition to multiple new cancer causes just this year, known cancer causing chemicals like benzene and other chemicals have been causing health impacts like headaches, nausea, bloody noses, burning eyes, skin rashes, asthma, vertigo, vomiting, tremors, heart and breathing difficulties that require ER attention, and more,' said Schiavo's office when reporting the survey's results.
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