Brandeis-Bardin’s Toxic Denial

April 6, 2017 8 comments

Jewish camp below Santa Susana Field Lab, aided by troubled state toxics agency, denies contamination has migrated to its property despite decades of evidence; new Dept. of Energy report proposes not cleaning up most contamination

Dept. of Energy secretly funding front group to sabotage its own Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup

September 1, 2016 8 comments

Dept. of Energy hides grant to group dedicated to sabotaging full cleanup of DOE’s nuclear part of Rocketdyne hoping Sen. Barbara Boxer won’t find out.

Critics question safety of Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Lab hikes

July 13, 2016 10 comments

The Boeing Company hosts public hikes and tours through Santa Susana Field Laboratory areas contaminated with radiation and chemicals as part of its efforts to paint SSFL as ready parkland not needing full cleanup.

Gone Fishing – Fukushima at Five Years

March 11, 2016 18 comments

Five year anniversary of Fukushima’s three ongoing meltdowns that are causing cancer and are impossible to clean.

Feds conspire to gut Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup

September 18, 2015 19 comments

Federal and state agencies conspire to gut cleanup but cleanup activists protesters vow to roll back phony pro-polluter petition. New group of young mothers with children with rare cancers assert lab is the cause.

Lights Out

October 14, 2014 18 comments

Failure to harden electrical infrastructure and spent nuclear fuel storage leaves U.S. and world vulnerable to solar or terrorist induced apocalypse.

High Stakes for Hot Property

March 6, 2014 5 comments

Revived SSFL Work Group meeting in Simi Valley about the massive Santa Susana Field Laboratory 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, site of the nation’s worst meltdown.

Truth or Scare?

March 6, 2014 6 comments

Cleanup opponents claim remediating nuclear and chemical contamination at SSFL is bad. One boasts that eating dirt at the lab wouldn’t be hazardous even at 1,000 times background.

Rocketdyne Still Hot

March 21, 2012 1 comment

The U.S. EPA spent $41.5 million on assessing radiation contamination in just one of four parts of the old Rocketdyne site finding radionuclides at thousands of times background.

Radioactive Los Angeles Rain 11-6-11 evening

November 8, 2011 4 comments

Los Angeles’ first impacted storm detected in Santa Monica was a troubling sign of what was to come later in the evening: suspected fallout from triple meltdowns at Fukushima Japan.

Radioactive Los Angeles Rain 11-6-11 morning

November 8, 2011 4 comments

The Fukushima Express may have delivered a radioactive punch in the rain to Los Angeles thanks to the Jet Stream over the Pacific moving south as the weather cools.

HEPA Filters – August 11, 2011

August 12, 2011 4 comments

HEPA filters’ aggregate from July 29, 2011 after 23 days of use are above background by a significant amount showing substantial radiation is in the air penetrating structures.

Radiation Nation

March 25, 2011 27 comments

Nearly 700,000 have come to EnviroReporter.com‘s Radiation Station in just a week to watch live Los Angeles basin readings and exchange information sparked by Fukushima meltdowns.

EnviroReporter.com’s Radiation Station

March 16, 2011 2,433 comments

Streaming webcam shot of EnviroReporter.com‘s Radiation Station. If fallout from the Japan makes its way to Southern California, you will find out about it at this monitoring site.

Melt Down Wind

March 15, 2011 14 comments

Fukushima reactors teeter on the brink of full meltdown as huge spent fuel rods burn. Californians can’t help but think about the possibility of nuclear fallout. And for good reason.

The Right Thing to Do

July 9, 2010 2 comments

A celebration of forty years of nuclear watchdog activism by Dan Hirsch’s Committee to Bridge the Gap brings out a Who’s Who of state environmentalists in celebration.