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CBG Mourns Death of Long-time Board Member Mildred Plotkin

CBGOct 22, 20101 min read

Millie Plotkin, who served on Bridge the Gap’s Board and was one of our mainstays for more than three decades, died peacefully in her sleep on October 16. She was…

Elected Officials Pressure Boeing to Cleanup SSFL

CBGSep 8, 20101 min read

After the historic announcement that NASA and DOE have agreed to clean up portions of SSFL, the Boeing Company is coming under intense pressure by public officials to agree to…

SSFL Nuclear Cleanup Deal Reached

CBGSep 3, 20101 min read

After 30 years of debate, a federal lawsuit, the passage of a state law, and congressional inquiries, a breakthrough agreement has been reached to cleanup portions of the SSFL facility…

Bake Sale For Boeing!

CBGFeb 22, 20101 min read

(With video.) February, 2010: Teens Against Toxins, a group of high school students alarmed by the Boeing Company’s refusal to clean up the radioactive and toxic contamination at its Santa…

CBG, Sierra Club, NIRS Comments on NRC Proposed Revisions to Radiation Standards

CBGFeb 10, 20101 min read

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…

CBG Leads Effort to Get Obama EPA to Block Pending Proposals to Relax Radiation Protections

CBGAug 5, 20092 min read

A whole range of proposals left over from the Bush Administration to markedly relax standards for radiation protection remain pending before the new leadership at EPA. In August, CBG led…

50th Anniversary of LA’s Partial Nuclear Meltdown

CBGJul 22, 20091 min read

In July 1959, a reactor in the Los Angeles area suffered a partial meltdown. The Atomic Energy Commission kept the accident secret for decades, until Bridge the Gap was able…

Bush EPA Attempts Relaxation of Radiation Protections As It Leaves Office

CBGFeb 13, 20091 min read

02/13/2009 Result:Obama Administration Withdraws Action Before it is Published in Federal Register Victory! Obama Administration pulls back last-minute radiation regulation relaxation by Bush Administration, days before publication in the Federal…

Historic SSFL Agreement

CBGJan 17, 20092 min read

Agreement Reached Between the Schwarzenegger Administration, CBG and Other Groups that Santa Susana Nuke Site will be Cleaned Up to Strictest Superfund Standards At a press conference on January 15,…

California Nuke initiative Bites the Dust

CBGNov 19, 20081 min read

November 19 2008 – A proposed ballot measure to revoke California’s nuclear safeguards law — which prohibits new reactors until and unless there is a permanent solution to the high…

Bush EPA Plans For Dramatically Relaxing Radiation Protection Before Leaving Office

CBGOct 30, 20081 min read

10/30/2008: Plans to greatly increase permissible public exposures from a wide range of events resulting in release of radioactivity were condemned today by scores of organizations and individuals in a letter…