[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, REGULATION: "Inside Job" report on Santa Susana Field Laboratory (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Consumer Watchdog
June 5, 2014

New Report Exposes Boeing Influence Peddling That Derailed Cleanup of a Partial Nuclear Meltdown Site Near L.A.
Group Calls On Governor To Appoint Director From Outside CALEPA To Run Toxics Department

SANTA MONICA, CA – A new report released by Consumer Watchdog today documents how Boeing and its influential fixers derailed the cleanup of a partial nuclear meltdown site in greater Los Angeles with help from their regulators at the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).

“When Governor Jerry Brown took office in 2011 and appointed Debbie Raphael to lead the DTSC, a thorough cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was abandoned to the detriment of the public health,” wrote advocate Liza Tucker in Inside Job. “Boeing accomplished this reversal by employing fixers to ensure that government officials would change course and allow most of the contamination to be left behind.” Debbie Raphael abruptly resigned as DTSC Director last month.

To read Inside Job, click here: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/InsideJob.pdf

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For the entire release, see
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/new-report-exposes-boeing-influence-peddling-derailed-cleanup-partial-nuclear-meltdown-s
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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