Allied Organizations
We are grateful for the organizations listed who have supported our environmental justice efforts; and we support theirs.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles is a physician and health advocate organization working to protect public health from environmental toxins and nuclear threats. They have been involved in efforts to cleanup SSFL since 1979, working with community members, cleanup advocates, and elected officials for a full cleanup that will protect the health of nearby communities from exposure to SSFL’s harmful nuclear and chemical contamination. They are Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab’s fiscal sponsor.
Committee to Bridge the Gap is a non-profit nuclear watchdog and policy organization focusing on issues of nuclear safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and disarmament. CBG is responsible for discovering and bringing public attention to the 1959 partial meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, which had previously been kept secret. Over the years, CBG has produced many reports on SSFL contamination and cleanup, and provided technical assistance to community groups fighting for full cleanup.
Parents Against SSFL are members of the California Environmental Justice Coalition (CEJC). Led by people of color and low-income communities, CEJC is a broad, inclusive, grassroots statewide coalition of small and large groups uniting urban, rural and indigenous communities in resistance against environmental racism and injustice, and committed to environmental, social, and economic justice.
NRDC has been a powerful allie in the fight for the SSFL cleanup. NRDC programs help create strong, just, and resilient communities—making cities healthier, more sustainable places to live. And when polluters threaten communities, their lawyers go to court on the community’s behalf.
Since 1987, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has worked to hold the federal government accountable through citizen education, empowerment, and action. Formed by organizations from communities in the shadows of nuclear weapons facilities, ANA includes more than thirty local, regional, and national organizations concerned about the consequences of US nuclear weapons and waste policies. ANA’s leaders are deeply rooted in communities directly affected by these policies, and we bring our experience to bear in addressing issues of government spending; public accountability; nuclear nonproliferation; waste cleanup, treatment and disposition; and the health and safety of workers, the public and the environment.
NIRS, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, is a national non-profit organization devoted to a nuclear-free, carbon-free world. NIRS has served as the information and networking hub for people and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues since 1978. NIRS works internationally to create a sustainable energy future without nuclear power, and are affiliated with the World Information Service on Energy (WISE) International.
CORE: Advocacy for Nuclear and Aerospace Workers is a an advocacy group that works to ensure that EEOICPA functions as Congress intended.
The EEOICPA program compensates former workers of the Department of Energy, or Department of Labor, who have experienced health problems related to exposure to ionizing radiation or toxic chemicals. CORE supports an accurate and truthful characterization of site and worker history to guide the EEOICPA claims process and environmental cleanup. CORE Advocacy for Nuclear & Aerospace Workers supports our neighbors, our environment, and Santa Susana personnel who served the United States during the Cold War and Race to Space, by expecting DOE and Boeing to be held to their obligations under the AOC’s and EEOICPA.
Heal the Bay is an environmental nonprofit established in 1985 that is dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds in Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy, and clean. We use science, education, community action, and advocacy to fulfill our mission.
Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition was founded in 1989 as a community-based alliance dedicated to the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, formerly known as Rocketdyne. They helped prevent the re-licensing of SSFL’s “Hot Lab” in 1989, effectively ending nuclear activities at the site. You can read about their formation and years of struggle in, “A Loss of Innocence,” a paper prepared in 2006 for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Advisory Panel.
The story of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice started with Lois Gibbs in Niagara Falls, N.Y. in 1978. To ensure that no other community would have to face a toxic health threat alone, Lois founded the Center for Health, Environment & Justice in 1981. The core of CHEJ’s mission has always been to prevent harm to human health by providing technical and organizing support to individuals and communities facing a toxic hazard.