Boeing to extract badly tainted soil from ‘burn pit’ at Santa Susana Field (LA Daily News)

“Along with other activists, Hirsch worried that weak toxic clean-up standards set by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) for the burn pit — and for the entire Santa Susana Field Lab area — would allow Boeing to preserve, rather than clean up, the area’s toxic contamination.

Representatives with Boeing didn’t answer questions from the Los Angeles Daily News about the cleanup of the controversial burn pit, and referred its reporter to DTSC. Excavation work in the burn pit area is expected to begin on Wednesday, Jan. 31.”

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