The badge of a customized Chevrolet Impala at a metal plating shop in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the ...

California could ban chrome plating commonly used to restore classic cars and provide protective coating for industrial parts. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) For decades, hexavalent chromium has ...

California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the use of a highly toxic metal for restoring classic car parts, protecting aviation components and producing a lustrous metallic finish for a variety ...

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Since 1986, California has classified hexavalent chrome as a toxic air contaminant to which there is no safe level of exposure. Despite that, it remains the ingredient used in chrome plating, but ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has cited a Portland chrome plating company for three violations of air pollution rules. The announcement of the violations comes as officials search for ...

Investigators are working to determine what caused a five-alarm fire at a chrome plating facility in Toronto's west end on Thursday morning. The Toronto Fire Service was first called to the blaze at ...

Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the metal shops that dip car bumpers, plumbing fixtures, airplane parts and other products in large industrial tanks to ...

For decades, hexavalent chromium has provided the silvery showroom finish to countless consumer products, from automobile bumpers and grilles to kitchen faucets and light fixtures. It has also served ...