A hazardous materials incident that had neighbors in Thousand Oaks sheltering in place for hours Wednesday night involved legal chemicals.

Three crooks boxed in a 70-year-old man driving down a Brooklyn street and bashed in the car’s passenger-side window before running off with $20,000 in a caught-on-camera heist, police said Friday.

The mechanism is seen by many as a trailblazer. It is the first global, environmental investment and credit scheme of its kind, providing a standardized emissions offset instrument, CERs. A CDM ...