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State Slams feds’ Santa Susana Cleanup Plan
VCStar reports
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SANTA SUSANA: The Battle for Cleanup Continues
The battle to ensure a full cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab increased in intensity in 2016 and 2017. The state and federal agencies that had promised cleanup took...
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Feds release draft plan for Santa Susana cleanup
The Ventura County Star reports here.
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EPA’s Plan for Radioactive Drinking Water
Eight years ago, in the waning days of the Bush Administration, the EPA tried to issue new standards for radioactivity in drinking water that would have increased permissible concentrations by...
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CBG’s 2016 Annual Report
2016 was a productive year for CBG and a busy year for nuclear issues. Read our annual report here (.pdf)
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EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Defends Plan for Drinking Water
Read more from NBC Bay Area here…
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Environmental Protection Agency’s New Emergency Plan for Drinking Water Concerns Many
NBC News for the bay area reports on EPA’s latest efforts to allow higher levels of radiation in drinking water.
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Critics Question Plans For Nuclear Waste Storage At San Onofre
NBC San Diego reports, here.
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A flawed missile defense system generates $2 billion in bonuses for Boeing
The Los Angeles Times reports here.
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Sandy Silver: Quake danger at Diablo Canyon
Sandy Silver discusses the danger an earthquake poses to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Article link here
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SSFL Contamination at Runkle Canyon and Brandeis-Bardin Institute? NBC4 Investigation and March 16 Work Group Meeting
NBC4 aired the 6th segment in its ongoing investigation of SSFL, “Living in the Shadow of a Toxic Mess,” on February 29, 2016. The investigation examined whether contamination from SSFL...
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LA’s Nuclear Secret: A Call For Action
NBC aired the fifth segment of its year-long and ongoing investigation into SSFL, “LA’s Nuclear Secret: Call For Action,” on December 14, 2015, revealing that Boeing now estimates that as many as 96 people out of 100 would get cancer from the contamination if they lived on the site – yet it has asked state regulators to allow them to not clean up about 98% of the soil on its property.
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CBG’s Annual News Letter! 2015 Edition
In this edition we discuss the slow moving progress to clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. We also look at other big nuclear stories of 2015, including revelations that...
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CBG & Other Groups Oppose EPA’s Proposed Huge Increase in Permissible Radioactivity in Drinking Water
Read the group letter by clicking here. On December 5, 2015, OMB received for review from the US EPA proposed changes to its Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for responding to...
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ATSDR Rejects Petition to Repudiate SSFL Health Studies, Cleanup
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced on December 7th that it will reverse course on plans to get involved at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL). The announcement comes after months of public outcry over ATSDR’s prior decision to accept a petition that asked the agency to repudiate studies that showed potential health risks from SSFL and to weigh in against the site’s cleanup agreements. The petition was submitted by a former manager at SSFL and current consultant to the Department of Energy, which is one of the polluters at SSFL.