[CPEO-BIF] Fwd: Consumer Watchdog Report on DTSC for CPEO-BIF listserve

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From: Michael Collins <mlc@enviroreporter.com>
Date: February 21, 2013 8:08:51 PM PST
To: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>, Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Subject: Consumer Watchdog Report on DTSC for CPEO-BIF listserve

Hi Lenny,

Consumer Watchdog has produced a report on DTSC, including interviews with DTSC insiders that rips the lid off of this "captured" agency, Boeing's astroturfing and greenwashing of the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory along with its "sham" community advisory group plus other DTSC misdeeds across the state:

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/new-report-shows-regulators-not-protecting-public-toxic-harm

The report is here:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/resources/goldenwasteland.pdf

Note on the last page of the report, that it references EnviroReporter.com's series Boeing's Meltdown Makeover: http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/boeings-meltdown-makeover/

NBC Bay area TV news segment:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Insiders-Say-CA-Toxic-Regulation-is-Weak-192121371.html

Note that in the above linked TV news segment, DTSC director Debbie Raphael tries to dodge the excellent television reporter and her cameraman on the streets of Sacramento. Why? Obviously to dodge the questions about the report but, if you watch the video to the end, perhaps to hide the fact that she was literally running to see Peter Weiner himself on a street corner, the ex-head of Cal-EPA who EnviroReporter.com reported on in part 4 of our series in Toxic Department: http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/toxic-department/ That wasn't the brightest thing Raphael has ever done, to be sure.

NBC4 (SoCal) news segment:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Regulators-Fail-to-Protect-Neighborhoods-From-Toxic-Waste/192207251

Senator Kevin DeLeon has called for a Senate investigation into DTSC:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/blog/sacramento-responds-golden-wasteland-reportnbc-expose

Of course, EnviroReporter.com's continues with the Boeing Meltdown Makeover series with parts 6 through 12 coming up... as well as coverage of DTSC's mishandling of Runkle Canyon.

Read the Consumer Watch report if you want to know the biggest polluter pal in state government: Cal-EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control.

Thank you, Lenny, for keeping informed of these issues crucial to so many Californians on the CPEO-BIF listserve.

Michael Collins
EnviroReporter.com