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CBG's Dan Hirsch participates in nuclear revival debate, listen in. (Scroll down to May 8.)
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Employees exposed to Santa Susana toxics look for compensation

Field Lab cleanup measure advances
"I think everybody was surprised."

Field lab cleanup postponed after uproar

DOE says it will stop cleanup of SSFL

Congressman Gallegly introduces a bill to help sick SSFL workers

cleanup bill may get a boost from federal judge's ruling

Federal District Court judge deals "a significant blow against efforts by the Department of Energy to walk away from contamination at" SSFL.

LATimes quotes Hirsch on the ruling: "What the judge is essentially saying to the DOE is: 'You guys have really fouled up this cleanup; you've broken the law repeatedly. And I'm going to retain jurisdiction until I'm satisfied that you've met your obligations to clean up the mess you've made.' "

VC Star Quotes Hirsch: "It's a declaration by the federal court that the Department of Energy has violated and continues to violate the central environmental law of the land."

AP: U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti said Wednesday that the agency has violated and continues to violate federal law in its cleanup of pollutants at the former research lab in eastern Ventura County, where a meltdown occurred in 1959.

Turning out the lights on Yucca Mountain

NRC gives final OK to flawed safety plan

Hirsch in Capitol Weekly: ""DHS is ordered to do things and they just don't do it."

Local TV News interviews Hirsch regarding nuclear plant bill

Nuclear plant bill dies in 3-6 vote . . . committee chair cuts off the bill's author

Timing of EPA review being so close to the introduction of a proposed clean-up law raises some questions."

Hirsch interviewed regarding nuclear revival talk: "trading cardon dioxide for plutonium."
(.mp3 interview included)

Hirsch quoted regarding nuclear revival talk: "These are people who have been on the dark side on everything and are now callously trying to drown us in radioactive waste."

Federal regulators rule that the nation's 103 nuclear power plants do not need to protect themselves from potential attacks by terrorists using airplanes.

New nuke security rules protect against attackers numbering "well below" 9/11 attack force

New nuke security rules constitute a "refusal by [the NRC] to protect the public"

SFChron: Nuclear officials say plants strong enough
Decision angers watchdog groups

Government says defending nuclear plants from airliner attack not an industry responsibility

 Nuclear Reactions: VA begins testing for radioactive waste beneath a popular West L.A. dog park and surrounding areas

 NRC Chairman asked on C-SPAN about CBG's proposals to require protection of reactors against air attack by terrorists; refuses to take action. See segment beginning at 12 minutes. [RealPlayer format]

Boeing Cited for 23 More Violations of Water Pollution Laws

CBG's Hirsch quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "Nuclear plants are devices that are filled with absolutely immense amounts of radioactivity, and it stays inside the reactor only so long as the coolant operates . . . That gives the terrorists the ability to use very primitive technologies to turn our nuclear plants against us, very similar to the use of box cutters on jumbo jets."

CBG research assistant Emily Churg discovers large contributions to pro-Boeing state politicians. State Senator Sheila Kuehl has the details in a special newsletter series.
June 2006 Here
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April 2006 Here
(.pdf)
March 2006 Here (.pdf)

AP quotes CBG, U.S. government is "proposing a nuclear Katrina, a formal policy of allowing the public to be exposed to massive radiation doses from a dirty bomb while the government does nothing to protect them."
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Hirsch appears on Public Radio International's show More to the Point
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Click here to Listen to the interview
(fastforward to about 26 minutes, realplayer required)

July 21 2007
CA senators want Santa Susana Field Lab worker compensation

Lawmakers seeking payouts to lab workers

Residents use rare access to put spotlight on SSFL

July 12 2007
Bogus company gets radioactives license

July 7, 2007
Lab workers' fallout

July 1 2007
Sad, sick legacy for nuclear workers

June 30 2007
Simi Valley Struggles to get outside agencies to look at Runkle Canyon contamination

Simi Valley Mayer to see Runkle Canyon contamination

June 29 2007
The Radiation Rangers

May 31 2007
State Senators want to investigate nuke-waste regulators

May 29 2007
U.S. cancer victims at rocket testing facility demand compensation

May 26 2007
Rocketdyne legislation survives narrow vote in Senate Ridiculed feds halt cleanup of LA's old Rocketdyne lab

May 6 2007
Editorial: Don't ignore renewed nuclear debate

April 27 2007
Acorn urges community leaders to endorse SSFL bill

April 19 2007
VC Star editorial
"urges the EPA to designate the field lab a Superfund site."

April 13 2007
After pressure from local and state leaders, EPA to take a new look at SSFL Clean-up issues

April 5 2007
Senator Feinstein asks the Deparment of Energy about SSFL cleanup standards

February 2 2007
NCTimes: New rules for nuke plants don't adequately address 9/11's threat from above

February 1 2007
NY Attorney General Slams Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Ignored the lessons of September 11 and abandoned its responsibility to protect millions of New Yorkers. "

January 30 2007
NRC rejects plan for power plants to stop airliner attacks



January 5 2007
CBG releases 2006 annual report
[.pdf format]

SSFL labeled one of the top 10 Los Angeles environmental stories of 2006

November 20 2006
City Council still undecided on Runkle Canyon development

November 19 2006
Runkle Canyon work not for development, mayor insists

November 8 2006
Senator Boxer inquires about disposal of Rocketdyne waste
[word document]

October 25 2006
Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks calls for complete Disclosure from Boeing.

October 13 2006
Newsweek: SSFL is a "California Time Bomb."

Residents near Runkle Canyon say latest report on Rocketdyne confirms their fears

October 9 2006
Simi Lab Meltdown Worse Than Three Mile Island (video)

Nuclear Meltdown may have caused cancers (video)

September 13 2006
State Wants Boeing site screened for waste.

June 17 2006
Brentwood dog park on VA property is built over an old radioactive waste dump that may be unearthed by proposed development.

An unknown amount of the radioactive waste
from experiments, including animal carcasses, were buried in a dump that now lies under the
Brentwood dog park, and may be disturbed by proposed development of the VA site.

May 4 2006
Industry clout eases nuke rules

May 3 2006
19 Environmental Groups + Senator Kuehl Rip Decision by Water Board Member Secundy Declaring Violations of Pollution Limits Harm the Polluter, not the Public

April 26 2006
CBG, Beamhenge in Council on Foreign Relations

April 14 2006
CBG + 60 Groups Slam FEMA Plans to Abandon Public to Huge Radiation Doses in Case of "Dirty Bomb"
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Whisleblower: "Questionable parts" ended up in hundreds of Boeing 737s

April 13 2006
CBG responds to New York Times article on radiation risks

March 23 2006
Nuke leaks taint Hudson
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March 13 2006
California Attorney General Files Amicus Brief in Support of CBG, et al. Suit Against DOE
Click here to read it
(.pdf format)

March 12 2006
CBG files motion for summary judgment in SSFL suit.
Click here to read it
(.pdf format)

February 1 2006
Sen. Feinstein says action
too slow on SSFL worker
claims
Click here to read
Sen. Feinstein's press release
and letter

January 26 2006
CBG issues joint press release
regarding lax dirty bomb
standards
Click here to read it

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