From Ojai Valley News
July 12, 2024
A grassroots group is kicking off a campaign to urge four local governments to sue the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) over its failure to enforce cleanup agreements at a Simi Valley site contaminated in the 1940s and 1950s by thousands of rocket tests and nuclear-reactor experiments.
The campaign kickoff event is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, July 13, at Strathearn Historical Park, 37 Strathearn Place, Simi Valley.
The event kicks off 10 days of in-person actions at upcoming supervisor and city council meetings.
A partial nuclear meltdown occurred in 1959, leaving radioactive fallout at the site.
Despite cleanup agreements being in place with The Boeing Company (Boeing), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the state has failed to demand they clean up the contamination to the standard originally agreed upon.
“We are asking four local governments to join together and sue the state to litigate over the final Environmental Impact Report,” said Larry Yee, a resident of Ojai and former chair of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Yee said the group is asking the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the cities of Los Angeles and Simi Valley to sue DTSC over the Environmental Impact Report recently issued for the site.
From Parents Against Santa Susana Field Laboratory
July 2024 Scheduled Actions
July 13: EVENT: SSFL Action Assembly, Strathearn Historical Ranch, Simi Valley
July 14: WATCH: In the Dark of the Valley Virtual Screening and QA Register
July 15: CALL: Elected representative phone banking
July 16: AMPLIFY: Reshare posts on social media & tag your representatives
July 17: EMAIL: Elected representative email banking
July 18: AMPLIFY: Share press stories with your networks
July 19: SIGN: Our open letter to local governments
July 20: AMPLIFY: Reshare posts on social media & tag your representatives
July 21: SIGN: Invite others to sign the www.Change.org/SantaSusana petition
July 22: CALL: Elected representatives
July 23: DEADLINE FOR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO FILE SUIT AGAINST DTSC
For more information: https://parentsagainstssfl.com/action-assembly
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