Click here to view the presentation made by CBG and community members.
CBG and NRDC Comments to the State Historic Resource Commission Opposing Nomination of SSFL as a Cultural District
CBG and NRDC comments on the Trump Administration’s proposal to designate the heavily contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory as a cultural district.
CBG and NRDC found that that the proposal is an effort to breach cleanup commitments, does not meet listing requirements, and should not be approved.
Click here to read the comment letter.
NASA wants nuclear-contaminated Santa Susana site to be made a historic landmark
In what some have described as a cynical attempt by a U.S. government agency to avoid a long-promised cleanup of toxic and radioactive contaminants, NASA has nominated the Santa Susana Field Laboratory for official listing as a traditional cultural property.
Read the full story by LA Times here.
Hunters Point Testing May Defy US Rules
Watch the news story below. To read the full article click here.
Revisions to Hunters Point Radiation Testing Report Draw Fire
NBC Bay Area reports. Read the story here.
Supervisors recommend rejection of NASA effort to have field lab declared cultural site
Read the Ventura County news report here.
Environmentalists Fault Sending ‘Very Low Level’ Nuclear Waste to Landfills
Click here to read the article.
Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency’s bid to relax rules on radioactive waste
Read the article here.
“This would be the most massive deregulation of radioactive waste in American history,” said Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear industry watchdog non-profit, about a proposal that would permit “very low-level” radioactive waste to be disposed of by “land burial”.
Advocates raise questions about proposal to allow some nuclear waste to be disposed in landfills
Read the article here.
“What they’re trying to do is prop up a failing industry so that the cost of decommissioning these [nuclear] reactors is reduced so you don’t have to send it to a place that is expensive because it’s designed to safely handle it,” said Dan Hirsch, the former director of the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy.
CBG’s Dan Hirsch Receives Earth Day Award From Ventura County
Click here to read the news release (pdf)