SSFL
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Citizens turn up heat on radiation-troubled field lab (The Acorn)
“Coinciding with the 65th anniversary of what they consider “one of America’s worst nuclear meltdowns,” Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup advocates hosted an “action assembly” at Strathearn Historic Park in...
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OPINION: V.C. must sue to protect people from toxic SSFL (Larry Yee in Ojai Valley News)
“Here we are 65 years later and SSFL has never been remediated, never been cleaned up, despite a long history of pleadings, protests, and petitions to the responsible parties, not...
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Grassroots group calls on local governments to sue California over toxic Simi site (Ojai Valley News)
“Organizers with the grassroots nonprofit Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab and supporters kicked off a 10-day campaign July 13 aimed at persuading the Ventura County and Los Angeles County...
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Activists protest Santa Susana Field Lab on 65th anniversary of meltdown, citing ongoing need for cleanup (LAist)
“The activists are marking the 65th anniversary of a partial nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Lab in July 1959, which released radioactive material and other toxic chemicals...
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Activists mark 65 years since partial meltdown at Santa Susana Field Lab (Los Angeles Daily News)
“Parks, a former Ventura County Supervisor, started paying attention to the Santa Susana site again as an adult in the 1980s after she heard about the disastrous environmental legacy associated...
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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...