Category: SSFL
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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...
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The Good That Came Out Of Suing the State Over Allowing Illegal Disposal Of Radioactive Waste From CA’s Most Notorious Cold War Lab
Consumer Watchdog’s Liza Tucker has written an epitaph of our joint lawsuit against the California Departments of Toxic Substances Control and Public Health for their failure to prevent Boeing’s radioactive...
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Santa Susana Field Lab activists say tainted structures must not go to landfills (LA Daily News)
“Four groups, Consumer Watchdog, Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA, Southern California Federation of Scientists, and Committee to Bridge the Gap, have urged the California Supreme Court to reverse a First District...
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Advocates remain skeptical after state announces final cleanup plan for Santa Susana Field Lab (NBC4)
“The state of California released a final report Thursday that lays out a cleanup plan for the Santa Susana Field Lab in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi...
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Advocates Fear Radioactive Waste From One of California’s Most Toxic Sites Could Contaminate More Communities (NBC4)
“This week, four consumer and environmental groups went to the California Court of Appeal to compel the state to require Boeing to dispose of toxic debris from the buildings in...
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Public Interest Groups Take On Newsom Administration Over Backtracking On Cleanup Of Radioactivity At Santa Susana Site
“In an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Sacramento to be heard on Monday, the Newsom Administration will be challenged over positions that breach a longstanding agreement to require...
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New Novel About SSFL, “God Went Like That” (LA Review of Books)
Loyola Law School professor Yxta Maya Murray has a new novel out called God Went Like That. The book extensively covers many details of the Santa Susana Field Lab story,...
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Reuters Publishes Special Report on Boeing’s Strategy to Leave SSFL Polluted
“In 2007, Boeing signed an agreement with California to make 1,900 acres clean enough that people could live on the land and eat vegetables from their gardens. But most of...
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The United States of Waste and Woe: Conserving Toxicity at the Santa Susana Field Lab
Listen to an interview with Dan Hirsch, Denise Duffield, and Melissa Bumstead on the podcast Gravity.
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Groups sue to force a more aggressive cleanup of old Rocketdyne site (Courthouse News)
“Three groups filed a petition in Ventura County Superior Court on Thursday to block a settlement signed this year by the state of California and Boeing that set up protocols...
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Calling for Accountability at the Santa Susana Field Lab
Heal the Bay has fought alongside CBG for the cleanup of the SSFL, and had this to say about last month’s outrageous decision by the LA Water Board. https://healthebay.org/calling-for-accountability-at-the-santa-susana-field-lab/
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CBG Critiques of CalEPA Deals with Boeing to Gut Santa Susana Cleanup
On August 11, 2022, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board held a special hearing in which, despite hours of community testimony overwhelmingly opposing it, the Board approved the...
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Santa Susana activists, residents slam Regional Water Board’s agreement with Boeing: ‘Huge tragedy’ (LA Daily News)
“On Monday, Hirsch called the approval of the new memorandum ‘a tragedy.’ ‘When they voted on the MOU — which was horrible in its own way — it made effective...
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Did California give Boeing a pass on a major pollution cleanup? (LA Times)
Read Michael Hiltzik’s new column on the SSFL.
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State’s new deal to clean up radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab is slammed by critics (LA Daily News)
“Nearly 15 years ago the Boeing Company and the state agency that oversees cleanup of the radioactively and chemically polluted Santa Susana Field Lab signed an agreement that asked Boeing...