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		<title>Up a River Without a Cleanup</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/up-a-river-without-a-cleanup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EnviroReporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Toxic Substances Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Polakovic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lewis MacAdams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal EPA and the state's DTSC abandon the agreement to cleanup SSFL to background levels of contamination. Longtime activists are outraged at repeated public betrayals as the government blows $41.5 million in stimulus money in the process. Boeing's lobbying power, and its success in turning DTSC into a 'captured agency' virtually assures that contamination will continue to gush into the L.A. River, the object of a $2 billion renovation around which L.A.'s master plan is based. December 12 EPA meeting hears calls for investigation of  the agency's misappropriation of millions that were supposed to be the guide for the DTSC cleanup to background. Boeing's PR flack, and author of its meltdown makeover, Gary Polakovic, shows up at the meeting unchastened and is warmly greeted by astroturf activist John Luker. ]]></description>
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		<title>Toxic Department</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/toxic-department/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EnviroReporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing's huge lobbying war chest, one of the five highest corporate lobbyist coffers in the country, has turned Cal-EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control into a "captured agency" say Rocketdyne activists.  Community members say DTSC appeared to fold in a lawsuit brought by Boeing over Santa Susana Field Laboratory, not challenging false statements in litigation. Encouraged by this backpedaling, another SSFL polluter, NASA, tries to back out of cleanup agreement which is greeted with citizen outrage. Boeing plans to leave lethal strontium-90 in its dirt at 430 to 43,000 times background where its astroturf collaborators claim no more cleanup is needed. The amounts of carcinogens that could be left behind will be staggering if Boeing succeeds in selling SSFL as "no significant risk to human health today" as Gary Polakovic's plan puts it.]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Astroturf</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/operation-astroturf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EnviroReporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christina Walsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Raphael]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Toxic Substances Control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norm Riley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing greenwashes the polluted Rocketdyne site above the San Fernando Valley by pushing for and offering to fund an "astroturf" Community Advisory Group (CAG) and, with the help of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, eliminates the long-established SSFL Interagency Work Group. E-mails and interviews detail how Boeing and DTSC put all their support in the CAG petitioner, Christina Walsh, who has threatened, harassed and libeled community members, elected officials and the media. With other astroturf targets like open-space advocate John Luker, friend to Boeing meltdown makeover PR flack Gary Polakovic, the greenwashing of Rocketdyne is nearly complete.]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing&#8217;s Meltdown Makeover</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/boeings-meltdown-makeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EnviroReporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Make Over Earth Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>EnviroReporter.com</em> exposes Boeing's meltdown makeover in this five-part expose.  Boeing hires a former <em>LA Times</em> writer, Gary Polakovic, to craft a plan selling the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory as clean enough for a park. Thousands of pages of documents, reports, interviews, e-mails, photographs and surveillance video of demolition at the site reveal a vast Boeing meltdown makeover. New information shows the lab more radioactive than ever with a polluter-pliant government subverting its own $41.5 million radiation study.]]></description>
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		<title>Radiation Readings Soar at Rocketdyne*</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Hirsch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shocking new radiation readings from the old Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory show cesium-137 at nearly 9,300 times normal background levels along with a witches' brew of deadly radionuclides on "The Hill." Worse yet, the U.S. EPA has bait and switched the radiation background numbers threatening an agreement to clean the radioactive site back to its normal condition. Sly maneuver fools legislator and nuclear watchdogs.]]></description>
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		<title>Terminated</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/12/terminated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is an expanded version of a December 27, 2010 LA Weekly blog post entitled “Arnold Schwarzenegger backs down on gutting of California's Green Chemistry Initiative” where your comments are also invited as well as here.]
In the face of withering media coverage in LA Weekly and elsewhere, the Schwarzenegger Administration has pulled an about-face on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger&#8217;s Chemical Romance</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/12/schwarzeneggers-chemical-romance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/12/schwarzeneggers-chemical-romance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmentalists are crying foul over the gutting of the Green Chemistry Initiative by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Department of Toxic Substances Control in his final days in office. Enviros say that slashed regulations hurt Californians and make a mockery out of Schwarzenegger's 'green governor' legacy.]]></description>
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		<title>Backgrounded</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/12/backgrounded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/12/backgrounded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>EnviroReporter.com</em> has confirmed through two independent sources that signing of final agreements between the California EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) and NASA for the cleanup of the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory site in Simi Valley will happen later today.]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Runkle</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/10/the-road-to-runkle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/10/the-road-to-runkle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Runkle Canyon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[KB Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radiation Rangers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control, in a sleight of land, has negotiated a deal with KB Home that would leave the 1,595-acre property virtually unremediated for radioactive and chemical contamination while the adjacent 2,850-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory would be extensively cleaned up to background levels. Some Simi Valley residents, led by the Radiation Rangers, are wondering why what's good enough for Rocketdyne isn't good enough for Runkle.]]></description>
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		<title>Sleight of Land</title>
		<link>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/09/sleight-of-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/09/sleight-of-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Perchlorate Patty" Coryell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Toxic Substances Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy metals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Brausch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=9617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lost in the glow of an historic deal to clean up the sprawling Santa Susana Field Laboratory is the fact that the cleanup will stop at the edge of the property line and not include controversial Runkle Canyon which shows signs of being polluted by the same radiation and chemicals that the old Rocketdyne lab it abuts has been contaminated with.]]></description>
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