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An agency known as DTSC — or the Department of Toxic Substances Control — is charged with monitoring California's hazardous waste. Recently the group Consumer Watchdog has been investigating the DTSC and has claimed that the agency is falling down on the job.

Based on those complaints, the Fair Political Practices Commission announced yesterday that it is launching a probe into the DTSC's chief deputy director. For more on this we're joined now by Vicky Nguyen, an investigative reporter with NBC Bay Area.

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