news archive
PASSFL is grateful for the extensive news coverage that informs the public about the Santa Susana Field Lab.
Please see Historical News for articles prior to the 1990s.
2026
Ojai Valley News, January 29, 2026: Boeing wins Santa Susana Field Lab lawsuit, 90% or more of contamination to remain in the soil on site
2025
Ventura County Star, December 3, 2025: Boeing faces $600,000 penalty over runoff at Santa Susana Field Lab
Simi Valley Acorn, October 18, 2025: Frustrated residents hold mock funeral for field lab cleanup
LA Daily News: October 10, 2025: Residents stage a ‘funeral’ claiming Boeing killed cleanup at Santa Susana Field Lab
EOS, August 26, 2025: Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke
Simi Acorn: July 18, 2025: Legal brief alleges longterm toxicity at Santa Susana field lab
Ojai Valley News: March 19, 2025 Dept. of Energy drops cleanup agreement for radioactive site near Simi Valley
Ventura County Star: March 4, 2025: 2 Meetings on Cleanup Plans at Santa Susana Field Laboratory Set For This Month
Simi Valley Acorn: February 8, 2025: SSFL Watchdogs Claim Victory in Court
Ojai Valley News: February 7, 2025: Boeing loses court case, must tighten regulation of PCBs at toxic Simi site
Ventura County Star: February 6, 2025: Updated Approach to Clean Up Contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab Site Open For Comment
Simi Acorn: January 24, 2025: Weaker Cleanup Standards Feared
2024
CalMatters: October 21, 2024: Californians must step up pressure to ensure a full cleanup of toxic Santa Susana lab
Simi Acorn News: October 26, 2024: It works when we work together
Acorn News: July 18, 2024: Citizens turn up heat on radiation-troubled field lab
Ojai Valley News: July 12, 2024: Grassroots group campaigns for Simi toxic site cleanup
LAist: July 13, 2024: Santa Susana protest
LA Daily News: July 12, 2024: Activists mark 65 years since partial meltdown at Santa Susana Field Lab
LA Daily News: June 25, 2024: Letter to the editor by Phil White: Time to clean up toxic mess
Ojai Valley News: June 5, 2024: Public demands Supes sue state to clean toxic site
Ojai Valley Magazine: Spring 2024: Radioactive Rain
Science and Health Network: Feb 26: Stormy Southern California: What Will Continue Washing Out of the Infamous Santa Susana Field Lab?
LA Daily News: Jan 26: Boeing to extract badly tainted soil from ‘burn pit’ at Santa Susana Field
Ojai Valley News: Jan 25: Supervisors extend deadline to file suit on toxic site cleanup plan
Ojai Valley News, Opinion by Larry Yee: Jan 25: Decision time for VC supes on cleanup of toxic Santa Susana Field Lab
Acorn Letter to the Editor, Lynn Lewis: Jan 19: Get the facts on SSFL cleanup
Acorn Letter to the Editor, Deva Andrews: Jan 19: SSFL cleanup far from done
Acorn News: Jan 5: Doubts persist over SSFL water safety
2023
Los Angeles Daily News: Cleanup of toxic ‘burn pit’ at Santa Susana Field Lab will start in the spring
Acorn News: Open burn pit cleanup to start soon
Ventura County Star: LA water board ups monitoring under permit for Santa Susana Field Lab site
Ventura County Star: Permit calls for more water testing at Santa Susana Field Lab, but critics say more needed
Los Angeles Daily News: New concerns raised about toxic chemicals at Santa Susana site
Los Angeles Daily News, Letter to Editor: Guest column: The continuing tragedy of the Santa Susana Field Lab
Larry Yee and Robert Dodge and response: Lack of action for SSFL cleanup
Thousand Oaks Acorn: Residents have an opportunity to weigh in on water discharge permit
CBS Los Angeles: Look at this: Santa Susana Field Lab
Acorn: Final EIR ready for Santa Susana Field Lab remediation
Ojai Valley News: Santa Susana Field Lab EIR sparks outrage over cleanup requirements
NBC4 Los Angeles: Advocates remain skeptical after state announces final cleanup plan for Santa Susana Field Lab
MSN: Advocates remain skeptical after state announces final cleanup plan for Santa Susana Field Lab
NBC4 Los Angeles: Santa Susana Field Lab Cleanup Efforts Raise New Concerns
Enviroreporter: Massive SSFL Contamination Deliberately Hidden Since 1981
Los Angeles Times: Is a common industrial chemical fueling the spread of Parkinson’s disease?
2022
LA Times: L.A. water board approves controversial agreement with Boeing over toxic site
Simi Valley Acorn: SSFL tour leaves some attendees with more questions than answers
The Gravity FM Podcast: The United States of Waste and Woe: Conserving Toxicity at the Santa Susana Field Lab
Los Angeles Times: Column: Did California give Boeing a pass on a major pollution cleanup?
Simi Valley Acorn: Stormwater deal pivotal to some, alarming to others
Ventura County Star: Water board's vote clears path for Boeing's clean up of toxic site near Simi Valley
Los Angeles Daily News: Santa Susana activists, residents slam Regional Water Board’s agreement with Boeing: ‘Huge tragedy’
REUTERS SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How Boeing created a nature preserve that may also preserve pollution
PEOPLE MAGAZINE, MAY 9, 2022: Girl's Cancer Leads Mom to 'Overwhelming' Discovery of More Than 50 Sick Kids Near Closed Nuclear Lab
NBC4 News, May 10, 2022: Cleanup Continues at Santa Susana Field Lab
Los Angeles Daily News, May 15, 2022: Environmental groups say safety measures lacking as Santa Susana Field Lab buildings demolished
Simi Valley Acorn: State says new agreement sets stage for stringent SSFL cleanup
Simi Valley Acorn: Water quality control board delays decision on renewal of field lab’s discharge permit
Ensia: Radioactive Contamination is Creeping into Drinking Water Around The U.S.
Harper’s Magazine: Spent Fuel, The risky resurgence of nuclear power
2021
Los Angeles Times Today: Santa Susana Nuclear Meltdown
Los Angeles Daily News: Environmental groups say safety measures lacking as Santa Susana Field Lab buildings demolished
NBC4 Los Angeles: Explosion Sends Potentially Radioactive Dust Into Air Above LA
MSNBC, The Reidout: MSNBC’s In the Dark of the Valley” documents parents finding cancer cases near nuclear lab.
MSNBC, Ali Velshi: Parents of young cancer parents driven to activism after cases get linked to nearby nuclear lab
NBC4 Los Angeles: Radioactive Waste Fell On Some LA-Area Neighborhoods During 2018 Woolsey Fire, New Study Shows
Ventura County Star: Study finds radioactive contamination migrated off field lab site during Woolsey Fire
Los Angeles Daily News: Study: Radioactive elements reached neighborhoods near Santa Susana Field Lab during Woolsey Fire
MSN.COM: Woolsey's Lasting Effects: New Study Finds Radioactive Waste
Variety: MSNBC Films Acquires ‘In the Dark of the Valley’ Documentary
Los Angeles Daily News: Valley activists, residents head to Sacramento to demand cleanup of contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab
Los Angeles Daily News NASA will dismantle two test sites at toxic Santa Susana Field Lab area
Simi Valley Acorn: Calls intensify for SSFL cleanup
Newsweek: NASA Faces $1.9 Billion Bill to Clean up Contaminated Sites Across the U.S.
2020
Acorn News: Simi Valley: Supervisors push for field lab cleanup
Courthouse News: Southern California Residents Blast NASA Plan to Clean Up Rocket Lab Site
Citizen Times: Energy Department reaches deal with state to demolish 10 buildings at Santa Susana site
Los Angeles Times: NASA wants nuclear-contaminated Santa Susana site to be made a historic landmark
Los Angeles Daily News: Demolition begins in July for contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory buildings
Ventura County Reporter: A Witch's Brew
Los Angeles Times: Cleanup to resume at troubled Santa Susana Field Laboratory site
2019
Ventura County Star: Fireworks Erupt NASA Meeting Cleaning Up Nuke Meltdown Site
NRDC Expert Blog: The Nuclear Waste Dump Hiding in LA
Los Angeles Daily News: Kardashian’s TV show features families affected by the Santa Susana Field Lab Los Angeles Daily News
NBC4 Los Angeles: Woolsey Fire Crippled Boeing Water Safety System at Toxics Site
NBC4 Los Angeles: Toxic Runoff from Santa Susana Exceeded Safety Standards
LA Magazine: With No Cleanup Plan in Place, Santa Susana Field Lab Still Stokes Contamination Fears
Podship Earth: Amazing Grace
Acorn News: Thousand Oaks: SSFL activists gather on 60th anniversary of partial meltdown
KCAL9 News: With help of 2 Kardashians, Simi Valley residents demand clean-up of nuclear meltdown site
Ventura County Star: Activists to mark 60th anniversary of partial nuclear meltdown at Santa Susana Field Lab
KCRW Public Radio: Families affected by cancer want state officials to lead cleanup of Santa Susana
Medium.com: Boeing invites families to site which may have given my daughter cancer
People Magazine: Did Late Actor Michael Landon Get Cancer from Filming Close to a 'Contaminated' Nuclear Site?
Ventura County Star: Bill would require Santa Susana Field Lab monitoring program for migrating contaminants
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: A Failure of Governmental Candor: The Fire at the Contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab
2018
Newsweek: Did Woolsey Fire Spread Radioactive Waste? Kardashian Sisters Share Cancer Petition
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists California fire near nuclear accident site
Ventura County Star: Residents Rip Officials for the Latest Santa Susana Field Lab Cleanup Delay
Ventura County Star: These folks are frustrated over field lab cleanup
Los Angeles Daily News: There’s renewed anger in Chatsworth, Simi Valley, over Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up
Scary Mommy Blog: My child is fighting cancer because of a contaminated testing site
Ventura County Reporter: Kids and Cancer | Residents of nearby Rocketdyne shines light on unusual diagnoses
ABC7 Los Angeles: Simi Valley residents upset over idea to use groundwater they believe may be contaminated during emergencies
2017
NBC4 Los Angeles: Cleaning up the Field Lab is All About Numbers
KQED News: Decades Later, Industry and Regulators Fail to Clean Up Former Rocket Test Site
NBC4 News: LA County Demands Full Cleanup of Toxic Site Above Valleys
Los Angeles Daily News: LA County to press for full cleanup of Santa Susana Field Laboratory
KCAL News: Concerned Parents Call For Full Cleanup Of Toxic Santa Susana Site
Los Angeles Daily News: Boeing altered its cleanup plan for toxic Santa Susana land
NBC4 I-Team: LA’s Nuclear Secret 9 Part Series
ENVIROREPORTER: Boeing aborts cleanup of Santa Susana Field Laboratory
Ventura County Star: Boeing proposes less stringent cleanup of Santa Susana Field Lab
KQED News: At Contaminated Lab Site, Rigorous Cleanup Standards Again in Question
Ventura County Star: State slams feds' Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup plan
2016
NBC4 I-Team Living in the Shadow of a Toxic Mess
KCAL News: Parents Hold Vigil, Demand Cleanup of Toxic Santa Susana Site
Curbed Los Angeles: Simi Valley Housing Development Rising Next to a Former Nuclear
2015
Local cancer moms begin to suspect that their children’s rare cancers could have been caused by the Santa Susana Field Lab.
> 2015
Los Angeles Times, 2014: Santa Susana Toxic Cleanup Effort is a Mess
Acorn News: Camarillo, 2014: Survivor recalls field lab disaster
Ventura County Reporter, 2013: Hot Cave Paintings
Pacific Standard Magazine, 2009: 50 Years After America's Worst Nuclear Meltdown
Los Angeles Times, 2007: Boeing Faces Fines Over Lab Runoff
Los Angeles Times, 2002: Ex-Rocketdyne Worker Describes 1994 Fatal Blast
Los Angeles Times, 1999: Rocker Says Field Lab Caused Daughter’s Death
Los Angeles Times, 1997: Rocketdyne Accused of Poor Testing
