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California to be Nuclear Free by 2025
In a stunning turn of events, Pacific Gas & Electric, the operator of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant on the Central California coast, announced in 2016 that it was abandoning its much-contested efforts to extend the reactors’ licenses. The last…
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 ever more troubling steps to break their commitments. The cleanup…
DOE’s Draft EIS Violates Federal Law, DOE’s Written Agreement with California and Leaves Up to 94% of Contamination at SSFL Not Cleaned Up
On January 6, 2017 the Department of Energy (DOE) released its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for its proposed cleanup of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), the site of a partial nuclear meltdown and numerous other…
Fig Leaves No Cover for Drinking Water Radiation Rollback
Final Approval for Radical Radiation Rise in Water Supplies after Nuclear Release Washington, DC — In a not so lovely parting gift, the Obama administration today formally adopted a policy of allowing public exposure to radioactivity following a nuclear release…
Clean up Santa Susana mess
The VC Star publishes Devyn Gortner’s response to the DOE’s draft environmental impact statement.
Year-Long Investigation into LA’s Nuclear Secrets
All five parts of this ground-breaking investigative series can be watched by clicking here. In 2015, The investigative team from NBC4 Los Angeles, led by producers Joel Grover and Matthew Glasser, ran a series of hard-hitting pieces about the Santa…
Are the EPA’s Emergency Radiation Limits a Cover for Fukushima Fumbles?
Read the report here.