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October 2, 2024

Community Holds Funeral for Threatened Cleanup of Toxic Site

LOS ANGELES, CA – Parents and residents will stage a symbolic funeral to protest the threatened death of a promised comprehensive cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), one of California’s most contaminated sites, ahead of a public meeting hosted by the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).

previous Press releases

January 29, 2025: Boeing Company Loses Santa Susana Lawsuit; New Monitoring Detects Toxic Discharges into Los Angeles River
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.