[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: "Longtime Activists" oppose Community Advisory Group at Santa Susana Field Lab (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Longtime activists worry California government is softening on Santa  
Susana Field Lab cleanup

By Susan Abram
Los Angeles Daily News
September 25, 2012

A community group that has fought for 20 years to get the Santa  
Susana Field Laboratory cleaned up, blasted California's Department  
of Toxic Substances Control on Monday for appearing to soften its  
stance on decontamination efforts of the former rocket engine testing  
site.

In a strongly worded letter sent to the DTSC on Monday, members of  
Rocketdyne Clean-up Coalition and other groups directed their ire  
toward agency director Debbie Raphael, who they said has made recent  
decisions that undercut decades of community activism.

"We write to regretfully inform you that we, representing the great  
majority of the community that has worked for so long for a full  
cleanup of the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL),  
have lost all confidence in you and your department," the letter said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_21622170/longtime-activists- 
worry-california-government-is-softening-santa

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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