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Boeing Company Loses Santa Susana Lawsuit; New Monitoring Detects Toxic Discharges into Los Angeles River

Environmental groups worked together to advocate for the Los Angeles Regional Water Board to strengthen a stormwater permit for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Their efforts resulted in an improved permit limiting the Los Angeles River from being polluted by long-lasting chemicals, PCBs, toxic metals, and radioactive waste from the site, as well as robust stormwater monitoring. After Boeing sued the Regional Board to overturn the new permit terms, environmental groups got involved to defend the permit, and the Los Angeles Superior Court recently ruled in favor of the Regional Board and rejected most of Boeing’s arguments.

previous Press releases

December 3, 2024: Parents Living Near One Of California’s Most Toxic Sites To Protest Broken Cleanup Promises
September 26, 2023: Parents advocate to prevent Boeing’s toxic chemicals from reaching local drinking water, crop irrigation water, and Pacific Ocean
March 17, 2023: Environmental Justice Fundraiser to Focus on Local Toxic Site
March 10, 2023: Toxic Rain Runoff Soaks Celebrity Enclave of Bell Canyon
February 16, 2023: Government Whitewash, Not Cleanup, at Toxic Santa Susana Field Lab
August 9, 2022: Parents speak out again Boeings plans to pollute the Los Angeles River and Ventura County’s drinking water with toxic “forever” chemicals from the SSFL.
May 9, 2022: Boeing, California EPA, Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and Los Angeles Water Board to break SSFL 2007 cleanup agreements.
November 2021: Parents Against SSFL and PEER: Radioactive Buildings Dynamited Near L.A.
July 2021: Seventeen Environmental Justice Groups send letter of concern regarding the Department of Energy’s nomination of Ike White to the Environmental Management (radioactive cleanups) role.