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Supervisors extend deadline to file suit on toxic site cleanup plan (Ojai Valley News)
“Ventura County Board of Supervisors announced Jan. 12 the signing of a legal “tolling agreement” that will extend a deadline to allow the filing of potential legal challenges to an...
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Larry Yee Op-ed in Ojai Valley News: Decision time for VC supes on cleanup of toxic Santa Susana Field Lab
“The fundamental question now is whether the Ventura County Board of Supervisors will do what it has promised: sue to overturn the SSFL Environmental Impact Report (EIR).” Read Larry’s entire...
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CBG’s 2023 Annual Newsletter & Dan Hirsch’s Year-End Letter
Friends, We are pleased to share our annual newsletter with you. It has been another year filled with daunting challenges – and yet, as you’ll read in Dan’s letter to...
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California energy officials vote to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant operations (LA Times)
“‘Inside the aging Diablo Canyon reactors resides an astronomical quantity of radioactivity,’ said Daniel Hirsch, a retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz....
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Diablo Canyon, the last remaining nuclear power plant in California, gets a lifeline (San Diego Union-Tribune)
“’No matter what is said today, the results appear preordained,’ said one caller from PG&E’s service territory. ‘Each of you commissioners were appointed by Gov. Newsom.'” Read the full article...
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State legislator, expert seek testing to vouch for at-risk welds at PG&E’s Diablo plant (NBC Bay Area)
“With PG&E seeking to extend the life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant another 20 years, a state legislator and a long-time pro-nuclear scientist are calling for PG&E to conduct...
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Radioactive objects turn up at S.F. site slated to become huge waterfront neighborhood — again (SF Chronicle)
“For the second time in five years, a massive retesting effort has turned up radioactive objects at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, in areas that were already swept of...
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More radioactive objects found in SF’s Hunters Point shipyard testing (NBC Bay Area)
“The ongoing testing on the old Hunters Point Naval shipyard has turned up a piece of radioactive glass and another radium deck marker.”
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Radioactive Objects Found at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raise New Concerns (KQED)
“The discovery, announced this week, is the latest in a steady drip of troubling findings at one of the city’s most ambitious redevelopment projects.”
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Radioactive contaminants found on Los Alamos National Lab worker’s skin (Santa Fe New Mexican)
“Nuclear safety advocates said the larger concern is the increased frequency that employees are being contaminated through mishaps or even normal workdays as the lab pushes to make pits that...
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Cleanup of toxic ‘burn pit’ at Santa Susana Field Lab will start in the spring (LA Daily News)
“For decades, a 6-acre site known as the “burn pit” at the Santa Susana Field Lab near the crest of the Simi Hills at the western border of the San...
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CBG Comments on DTSC’s Burn Pit Remedial Action Workplan
The California Department of Toxic Substance Control recently released a Remedial Action Workplan for the cleanup of the ‘burn pit’ at the Santa Susana Field Lab. The Work Plan is...
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Press Release: Santa Susana Slated to Remain Major Ecological Hazard
Today, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Committee to Bridge the Gap issued a press release revealing that the proposed cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) would...
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Dan Hirsch and Dale Bridenbaugh Presentation on Fukushima Radioactive Water Release
Dan Hirsch and Dale Bridenbaugh – the former General Electric nuclear engineer who, in 1975, disclosed safety problems with the GE Mark I reactor design that was used for 5...
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Speakers urge supervisors to move forward with litigation (Simi Valley Acorn)
“Residents urged the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 17 not to backtrack on its commitment to the well-being of the community and to move forward with legal action...