[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne and JPL (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Burden

As a grand jury investigates the Rocketdyne site, NASA accepts
responsibility for cleaning up around Pasadena's JPL

By KEVIN UHRICH
Los Angeles City Beat
December 15, 2005



Details of a recent out-of-court settlement between defense industry
giant Boeing and alleged victims of pollutants emanating from its Santa
Susana Field Lab have remained secret ? but maybe not for long. 

Last week, Boeing announced that company officials were being questioned
by a federal grand jury regarding the Santa Susana facility formerly
known as Rocketdyne, high in the hills between Simi Valley and
Chatsworth. Previous owner Rockwell International performed nuclear
experiments on the site and, like Boeing, used highly poisonous
substances to test jet and rocket engines. 

...

Hirsch also noted the curious timing of the subpoenas being delivered to
Boeing officials, coming just as another federal bureaucracy ? NASA ?
finally accepted responsibility for yet another longstanding toxic
disaster, this one at the 176-acre Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, where some of the contaminants include such volatile organic
compounds (VOC) as trichloroethylene, carbon tetrachloride, and
inorganic compounds like the toxic rocket fuel oxidizer, perchlorate. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2998&IssueNum=132

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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