Category: Press Release
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Massive Woolsey Fire Began On Contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory
CLOSE TO SITE OF PARTIAL MELTDOWN Electric Substation at SSFL Tripped 2 Minutes Before Fire Reported For Immediate Release: November 12, 2018 Contact: Denise Duffield, 310-339-9676 or dduffield@psr-la.org, Melissa Bumstead rmelissabumstead@sbcglobal.net, Dan Hirsch, 831-336-8003 or dhirsch1@cruzio.com...
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PEER: RADIATION PROBLEMS MULTIPLY FOR SAN FRANCISCO’S HUNTERS POINT
Nearly All U.S. Navy Radiation Samples Were Falsified, Fraudulent or Unreliable For Immediate Release: Monday, April 9, 2018 Contact: Kirsten Stade (240) 247-0296 Washington, DC — Troubles afflicting the nearly 30-year...
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Press Release: 30 Public Interest Groups Urge Governor Brown To Freeze State Oil Drilling
30 Public Interest Groups Urge Governor Brown To Freeze State Oil Drilling PRESS RELEASE January 23, 2018 Contact: Liza Tucker(626) 372-1964, Dan Jacobson (916) 743-5356 30 environmental and public interest groups urged Governor...
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Polluter Responsible for Contamination Establishes Greenwashing Website to “Protect Santa Susana” from Being Cleaned Up
HAS BOEING ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 26, 2017 Contact: Denise Duffield, 213-689-9170 office, 310-339-9676 cell, dduffield@psr-la.org Marie Mason 805-279-0356 mariejmason@roadrunner.com Dan Hirsch, 831-336-8003 office, or 831-332-3099 cell, dhirsch1@cruzio.com Counter Website Launched — Protect Santa Susana from Boeing Community organizations working...
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SSFL Court Decision Has Little Impact
September 19, 2014 – Today’s appeals court decision in a lawsuit Boeing filed back in 2009 will not affect the cleanup of the former reactor and rocket testing facility near...
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Over 100 Groups Call on EPA to Withdraw Dramatically Weakened Radiation Guides
Over 100 environmental organizations have called on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to withdraw EPA’s controversial new Protective Action Guides (PAGs), which would allow exposure to very...
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Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks in 3 Days are Latest Stumbles for U.S. Nuclear Power Industry
Statement by Daniel Hirsch Rather than the nuclear revival hoped for by the industry, the gearshift has been thrown hard in reverse. Instead of a proliferation of new plants, existing...
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EPA Dramatically Weakens Radiation Protection
April 15, 2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing in the Federal Register today controversial new Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for responding to radioactive releases. EPA says it...
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Historic Cleanup Agreement Reached for Former Nuclear Facility in Southern California
State and federal governments signed agreements today to clean up toxic contamination at SSFL, a former nuclear reactor and rocket testing facility in the hills overlooking the western San Fernando...
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CBG, Sierra Club, NIRS Comments on NRC Proposed Revisions to Radiation Standards
At the heart of what should be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s prime mission is protection of the public and nuclear workers from exposure to radiation. Unfortunately, current NRC radiation protection...