L.A. County Terminates Toxic Trails

July 10, 2018 6 comments

L.A. County terminates trails to SSFL after public & media outcry as more lab contamination exposed

Until We’re Dead and Gone

June 14, 2018 4 comments

DTSC deceives public about Rocketdyne cleanup, denies petition insisting on complete remediation, falsely claims no SSFL goo got offsite.

DUMPED: Wayne Fishback in Browns Canyon

June 6, 2018 5 comments

Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat and EnviroReporter.com first exposed Wayne Fishback’s dumping of tons of rubble and trash into wild canyons near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the 2006 feature FISHBACK MOUNTAIN. Six galleries of this dumping, and resultant public protests, are documented in Fishback Mountain Gallery. “The County of Ventura […]

Toxic Trails

February 6, 2018 7 comments

LA County Rec and Parks quietly plans hiking trails to contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory, ignoring toxins while honoring anti-cleanup gadfly.

Toxics agency buries Santa Susana Field Laboratory cleanup

October 4, 2017 14 comments

State toxics department’s draft EIR for SSFL omits risk data and suggests leaving Rocketdyne contamination in place.

Boeing aborts cleanup of Santa Susana Field Laboratory

August 23, 2017 8 comments

Boeing has announced that it no longer intends to clean up Rocketdyne to levels it previously promised. Company now claims that since the land is intended for open space it no longer has to remediate the site to levels demanded for decades.

State toxics department white papers over Brandeis-Bardin contamination

August 14, 2017 2 comments

DTSC’s “white paper” on Brandeis-Bardin contamination debunked as greenwashing propaganda as are camp reports.

Brandeis-Bardin’s Toxic Denial

April 6, 2017 9 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.

Protest of Boeing Santa Susana Field Lab tour leads to potential discovery of new contamination

August 15, 2016 13 comments

Boeing picketed and protester discovers broken and corroded pipe with possible deadly antimony insulation out in the open.

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.

EnviroReporter.com DECADE 2006-2016

May 18, 2016 9 comments

EnviroReporter.com marks a major milestone – the online news organization turns 10 today having begun publishing May 18, 2006 with a story about the biomedical nuclear and chemical dump in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. Story stopped a $4 billion scheme to privatize the West L.A. Veterans Administration. So began this award-winning environmental news outfit which says its best is yet to come.

West LA VA ‘master plan’ covers up its chemical and nuclear dump

December 17, 2015 13 comments

Proposed master plan for West LA VA fails to include 2007 and 2010 VA studies confirming high radiation and chemicals in its biomedical nuclear dump.

ATSDR bows out of Santa Susana Field Lab probe

December 8, 2015 7 comments

ATSDR backs away from hoax petition to declare SSFL safe through study reinterpretation. Community, electeds triumph over polluter allies.

Santa Susana Field Lab health study hoax stumbles forward

September 29, 2015 13 comments

ATSDR says it will pursue and expand its Boeing-touted proposal to re-evaluate health risks from SSFL. Boeing’s own reports show site soil even more deadly than already known.

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.