Author: CBG
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Memorial for Dan Hirsch
A memorial will be held for Dan Hirsch on Saturday, November 8, noon to 3:30pm, in Simi Valley. Please join us for an afternoon sharing memories and tributes to his...
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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...
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Residents stage a ‘funeral’ claiming Boeing killed cleanup at Santa Susana Field Lab (LA Daily News)
“Community members staged a “funeral” in front of a Boeing building in Van Nuys this week, claiming the company killed the cleanup of the toxic and radioactive site at the...
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Protesters stage mock funeral for SSFL cleanup (Ojai Valley News)
“On the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 7, residents of Simi Valley and West Hills, angry over the chemical and radioactive contamination at the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) rocket and...
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Holtec walks away from nuclear waste project in New Mexico (Reuters)
“Private nuclear power company Holtec said this week it is walking away from a project to store nuclear waste in New Mexico, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June...
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Revered nuclear safety advocate Dan Hirsch dies (Camarillo Acorn)
“Hirsch, former director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz devoted more than four decades to holding government agencies and corporations accountable for toxic and...
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Saying goodbye to Dan Hirsch (Melissa Bumstead in the Simi Valley Acorn)
“Dan was a force of nature. He never compromised when it came to protecting our health and our children’s future. Even when it cost him time, energy and peace, he...
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U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons (Scientific American)
“Most Americans probably don’t realize that nuclear reactors originally were invented not for electricity or research but to produce a new substance, plutonium, for nuclear weapons such as the one...
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Legal brief alleges longterm toxicity at Santa Susana field lab (The Acorn)
“A coalition of environmental and public health groups has filed a new legal brief in their ongoing lawsuit against Boeing Co. and the State of California, alleging that a 2022...
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Action needed to address Diablo Canyon safety risks posed by Trump Administration deregulation of NRC (Mothers for Peace, Friends of the Earth letter to Gov. Newsom, State leaders)
Mothers for Peace and Friends of the Earth have sent a letter to California Governor Newsom and other top California government officials, pointing out that President Trump’s recent actions profoundly...
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Jaimi Dowdell Interview About Reuters Report on ATSDR Shielding Polluters
Jaimi Dowdell was recently interviewed on Frank von Hippel’s Science History Podcast, discussing last year’s Reuters report on the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the largely captured federal toxics...
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Trump’s $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills (Rolling Stone)
“The Trump administration released three executive orders on nuclear energy on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend — a time often used to dump bad news. And these...
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SSFL needs full cleanup (Simi Valley Acorn)
“New arrivals to Simi Valley might be surprised to learn about the history of the SSFL test site and the critical need for a complete cleanup.” Two letters on SSFL...
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NASA razes rocket engine test stands
“Towering more than 200 feet tall, the Coca Test Stands at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory once shook the hills of eastern Ventura County with the roar of rocket engines...
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NASA razes rocket engine test stands (Thousand Oaks Acorn)
“At the May 13 meeting, Daniel Hirsch, longtime nuclear policy watchdog and president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, criticized the plan. Hirsch and his UC Santa Cruz students...