Category: SSFL
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Public demands Supes sue state to clean toxic site (Ojai Valley News)
“Eight Ventura County residents provided public comments regarding Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) cleanup at the Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, June 4. The public comments all...
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DTSC-Boeing scientists say contamination contained at toxic field lab (Ojai Valley News)
“Two scientists working in a decades-long relationship for Boeing and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, the state regulatory body overseeing a stalled effort to clean up the most...
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Radioactive Rain (Ojai Magazine)
Click here to read this overview of the history of and current fight over the Santa Susana Field Lab by Kit Stolz in Ojai Magazine.
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Potential litigation is placed on hold (Simi Valley Acorn)
“Yee said the tolling agreement extends the legal statute of limitations but doesn’t require waiting for final assessment. ‘Instead, the county now can sue at any point it chooses, and...
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Water worries linger as field lab cleanup progresses (Simi Valley Acorn)
“Simi Valley resident Julie Korenstein questioned why Boeing is able to conduct its own monitoring. ‘I only wish there was someone else verifying it. I don’t really feel comfortable. It’s...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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LA water board enacts tougher rules to protect people near toxic site (Ojai Valley News)
“Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board voted 4 to 0 to approve new regulations for certain pollutants in a five-year stormwater permit for runoff from the Santa Susana Field...
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LA water board tackles water permit from toxic Simi site Oct. 19 (Ojai Valley News)
“At its Sept. 28 meeting in Ventura, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board delayed till its Oct. 19 meeting a decision on renewing a five-year permit governing water...
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New concerns raised about toxic chemicals at Santa Susana site (LA Daily News)
“A watchdog group issued a report last month saying that two highly toxic chemicals are not being monitored at the Santa Susana Field lab and potentially can leak into the...