Author: CBG
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Government seeks changes in field lab cleanup strategy (Simi Valley Acorn)
“Not all community members agree with the energy department’s new strategy. Haakon Williams, deputy director of the watchdog Committee to Bridge the Gap, criticized the DOE and accused the agency...
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CBG Response to DTSC’s SSFL MLE Proposal
Click here to read our comments opposing DTSC’s Multiple Lines of Evidence Proposal for the Santa Susana Field Lab
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From the Margins to the Ivy League: My Story by Tyrone D. Taborn
“For many kids like me, especially Black boys, the schoolhouse to a jailhouse pipeline wasn’t a theory—it was reality. My half-brother went to prison for 18 years. That could have...
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CBG-NRDC Joint Comments on DOE’s Proposed SSFL SEIS
Click here to read the CBG-NRDC joint comments on the Department of Energy’s proposed Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for SSFL
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Pete Hegseth Torched for “F**king Racist” Move on Recruitment (The New Republic)
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to withdraw Army recruiters from the nation’s top Black engineering event has ushered blunt criticism from military leadership. ‘It’s fucking racist,’ one active duty Army...
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Military backs out of recruiting at science and engineering conference as part of DEI purge (Stars and Stripes)
“Military organizations have backed out of an engineering, science and technology conference set for this weekend as part of a new Pentagon policy that bans diversity-focused events. The Becoming Everything...
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Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event (Military.com)
“The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants...
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Boeing loses court case, must tighten regulation of PCBs at toxic Simi site (Ojai Valley News)
“Late last year, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge handed down a ruling in a lawsuit brought by Boeing against the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, resulting in...
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Critics fear weaker cleanup standards at field lab nuke site (The Acorn)
“Environmental and public health advocacy groups, including Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Parents Against SSFL, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles Chapter, and the Committee to Bridge the Gap, condemned DOE’s...
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Ex-contractor to pay $97 million over fraud claims at S.F. Hunters Point Shipyard (SF Chronicle)
“The former Navy contractor that has been at the center of a decade-long legal battle over accusations of fraud at the San Francisco Shipyard development has agreed to pay $97...
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U.S. DOE Reneges on Santa Susana Cleanup Commitment
On January 13, 2025, CBG, in conjunction with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Parents Against SSFL, and Physicians for Social Responsibility–LA, put out a press release about the US Department...
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Toxic Simi Site Addressed at State Meeting (Ojai Valley News)
“On Dec. 19, the U.S. Department of Energy announced its Notice of Intent “to evaluate additional alternatives for cleanup of soils in the Department of Energy areas” at the toxic...
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CBG’s 2024 Annual Newsletter
Friends, We’d like to share our 2024 annual newsletter with you.
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Feds in Settlement Talks with Former Contractor Accused of Fraud in S.F. Shipyard Cleanup (SF Chronicle)
“A decade-long legal fight between whistleblowers and the embattled former Navy contractor accused of fraud in the botched toxic cleanup of San Francisco’s Hunters Point Shipyard is headed toward resolution...
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New Approach Would Expedite Cleanup at SSFL, Officials Claim (Thousand Oaks Acorn)
“The agency is facing strong criticism from cleanup activists who say the new approach reneges on previous cleanup agreements and fails to protect the public from toxic contaminants in an...