Chemical Contamination
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Board stops California toxic waste regulators from weakening a hazardous waste rule (AP)
“California shouldn’t weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that currently goes to two specialized disposal sites in the Central Valley and hazardous facilities in...
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Soil workshop at toxic Santa Susana Field Lab draws ire (Ojai Valley News)
“The presentation did not satisfy the online community. In the question-and-answer period at the end of Hanley’s presentation of one hour and 40 minutes, the first comment came from nuclear...
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Dangerous Pollution Detected from Santa Susana Lab (PEER)
A new press release out today from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility reveals “disturbing levels” of pollutants including radionuclides and PCBs running off from SSFL. This pollution was detected due...
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EPA and Navy announce Hunters Point shoreline cleanup plan (NBC Bay Area)
“Federal environmental officials unveiled Thursday what they hailed as a landmark deal with the Navy to clean up the shoreline around the old site of its Hunters Point Naval Shipyard—a...
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‘We’ve been too patient’: Community, officials demand action on Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup (VC Reporter)
“An advocacy group founded by families of children diagnosed with rare cancers, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab, recently staged a “10 Days of Action campaign,” to coincide with the...
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How a US health agency became a shield for polluters (Reuters)
A major new Reuters investigation details how the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) “regularly downplays and disregards neighbors’ health concerns” and “has helped polluters save at...
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Guest column: Sue for a full cleanup of Santa Susana Field Lab (Ventura County Star)
“There are times when the citizens of Ventura County need to stand in solidarity for our shared interests. Now is such a time. While many of us are potentially affected,...
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Supervisors hear calls to sue over site of partial nuclear meltdown (Ojai Valley News)
“The action culminated in a demonstration on July 23 outside the county Government Center in Ventura, featuring protesters wearing green Parents Against SSFL T-shirts and carrying signs, followed by a...
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Advocates for Simi’s toxic site cleanup put out call to action (Ojai Valley News)
“About 60 people attended the event at the Strathearn Historical Park in Simi Valley. Ventura County Supervisors Janice Parvin of Simi Valley and Vianey Lopez of Oxnard attended. Former Ventura...
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Protestors Demand Ventura County Supervisors Sue Over Toxic Simi Valley Lab (San Fernando Valley Sun)
“Approximately 20 people protested outside the Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, July 23, demanding they keep their promise and sue the California Department of Toxic Substances Control...
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Supes to consider suing state to clean up Simi’s toxic site (Ojai Valley News)
“Whether to litigate over a potentially inadequate Environmental Impact Report for the clean up of toxic contamination at Santa Susana Field Lab in the Simi Valley Hills is on the...
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Citizens turn up heat on radiation-troubled field lab (The Acorn)
“Coinciding with the 65th anniversary of what they consider “one of America’s worst nuclear meltdowns,” Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup advocates hosted an “action assembly” at Strathearn Historic Park in...
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OPINION: V.C. must sue to protect people from toxic SSFL (Larry Yee in Ojai Valley News)
“Here we are 65 years later and SSFL has never been remediated, never been cleaned up, despite a long history of pleadings, protests, and petitions to the responsible parties, not...
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Grassroots group calls on local governments to sue California over toxic Simi site (Ojai Valley News)
“Organizers with the grassroots nonprofit Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab and supporters kicked off a 10-day campaign July 13 aimed at persuading the Ventura County and Los Angeles County...
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Activists mark 65 years since partial meltdown at Santa Susana Field Lab (Los Angeles Daily News)
“Parks, a former Ventura County Supervisor, started paying attention to the Santa Susana site again as an adult in the 1980s after she heard about the disastrous environmental legacy associated...