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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 help the year end, “The moral arc of the universe…
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 Fernando Valley was used by Rocketdyne workers who dumped large…
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 woefully inadequate, planning to leave toxins at levels high enough…
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 leave in place toxins at levels seriously harmful to wildlife,…
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 of the 6 reactors at Fukushima – provided comments to…
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 against the state. … At the Oct. 17 meeting, Larry…
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 Lab in southeastern Ventura County near Simi Valley, during a…
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 runoff from the contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab in eastern…
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 Los Angeles River. Local water officials, however, say they’ve since…
Forever chemicals at former Nasa lab are leaking into LA River, say watchdogs (The Guardian)
“Two highly toxic chemicals polluting a former Nasa research site are also probably contaminating the Los Angeles River and aquifer from which the region’s agricultural growers draw their water, watchdog groups and a whistleblower charge. The Santa Susana field laboratory…
Public Health Officer warns of dangers of not fully cleaning up Santa Susana Field Lab (Ojai Valley News)
“Ventura County Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin spoke at a hearing of the state Board of Environmental Safety in Sacramento last week on the subject of the Santa Susana Field Lab, a rocket- and nuclear-testing site near Simi Valley.…