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Consumer Group Wants Insurers Forced To Cover Autism Care

August 14, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

Law360, Los Angeles (August 14, 2013, 3:58 PM ET) — Nonprofit consumer group Consumer Watchdog urged a California appellate court Wednesday to revive a lawsuit...

State Stumbles Over Illegal SSFL Radioactive Waste Disposal Allegations

August 9, 2013  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p><em><strong>Public Interest Groups Move Forward with Lawsuit</strong></em><br /> <br /> A hastily-arranged press conference call Tuesday revealed Cal-EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control’s strategy in dealing with revelations of illegally dumping and recycling radioactive material from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL): feign outrage and boldly claim, without proof, that DTSC hadn’t done anything wrong.</p>

KCAL TV-9 – CBS, Los Angeles, CA – Consumer Watchdog Files Suit To Halt Demolition, Debris Removal At Santa Susana Field Lab

August 8, 2013  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p>SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA.com) — Once a cutting edge research and development center, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the hills above Simi Valley long ago became a contaminated, radioactive source of great concern.<br /> <br />

DTSC Defends Santa Susana Lab Cleanup Oversight; Activists File Lawsuit

August 8, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Toxics department officials this week defended their oversight of cleanup activities by the Boeing Co. at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and disputed allegations by environmentalists in a new lawsuit that the agency is allowing illegal disposal of radioactive waste.<br /> <br />

Groups Sue To Block Demolition At Ex-Nuclear Site

August 6, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Several environmental groups on Tuesday sued state regulators over the cleanup of a former nuclear research lab, saying low-level radioactive waste was improperly shipped to landfills.</p>

Consumer Watchdog Filing Suit to Block Top Toxics Regulators From Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Including Plutonium, From Nuclear Site

August 6, 2013  ·  Liza Tucker

After regulators failed to meet a 24 hour deadline set by public interest groups to stop Boeing from demolishing and disposing of radioactive waste at facilities not licensed to accept radioactive waste and at recycling plants

Consumer Group Says Boeing Illegally Disposed of Radioactive Waste

August 5, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The nonprofit Consumer Watchdog group Monday accused the state of allowing Boeing to demolish radiation-contaminated structures at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and dispose of the debris at sites not licensed to receive radioactive waste.<br /> <br /> The group said it uncovered the practice at the field lab in the hills outside Simi Valley, the site of a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959.<br /> <br />

Boeing, State Facing New Complaints on Santa Susana Toxic Cleanup

August 5, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="TXBody"><span id="RDS_Site">Two state regulator agencies were accused Monday of placing the public's health at risk by allowing the Boeing Co. to demolish an old plutonium fabrication building on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site and then planning to dispose the debris at an unlicensed dump in Kern County.</span></p>

Environmental Groups Say Radioactive Waste Is Going To Landfills

August 5, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>A coalition of environmental groups accused state regulators Monday of allowing low-level radioactive waste from the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory to be illegally disposed of in landfills not licensed to receive such material.</p> <p>Consumer Watchdog,  the Center for Race Poverty and the Environment, and others said debris from six structures from the former nuclear research facility already had been delivered to municipal landfills and metal and concrete recyclers.</p>

Watchdog Groups Allege Boeing Sent Radioactive Waste To City Landfills, Recycling Facilities

August 5, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Watchdog groups have accused Boeing Corporation of sending radioactive waste from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County to landfills that aren’t certified to handle it – and they allege that the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control has condoned the practice.</p> <p>The groups said the waste is going to city landfills in Lancaster and Azuza, and recycling plants in Simi Valley, Sun Valley, and Ventura, creating an imminent health threat for people in the surrounding neighborhoods.</p>

Consumer Watchdog Demands Top Toxics Regulator Immediately Stop Boeing’s Illegal Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Including Plutonium, from Nuclear Site or Face Legal Action

August 5, 2013  ·  Liza Tucker

SANTA MONICA, CA –State regulators at the troubled Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the Department of Public Health (DPH) are quietly allowing Boeing...

Blue Cross To Allow HIV/AIDS Patients to Opt-Out of Mandatory Mail-Order Rx Drug Program

May 23, 2013  ·  Jerry Flanagan

Santa Monica, CA – Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may “opt-out” of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by...