Toxic site cleanup agreements laid to rest at funeral demonstration (Daily Sundial)

“Protesters gathered at the Rancho Santa Susana Community Center in Simi Valley on Oct. 7 in protest of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) cleanup agreements not being honored.

Attendees held a moment of silence for the SSFL agreements, dressed in all-black funeral attire and stood in front of makeshift tombstones, a hearse and a coffin. The tombstones included sayings such as ‘Santa Susana Field Lab Cleanup 2007-2025,’ ‘public trust,’ ‘resident with garden scenario,’ ‘RIP toxic free’ and ‘health.’

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‘It’s been a long and tragic saga of the polluters doing everything in their considerable power to wriggle out of their cleanup agreements,’ said Haakon Williams, deputy director of the Committee to Bridge the Gap. ‘The DTSC has unfortunately been subject to what we call “regulatory capture,” where the regulators who are supposed to be protecting the public from polluters are in fact doing the opposite.'”

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