NEW STUDY: Rapid COVID-19 Spread in CA Linked to Unsafe Working Conditions at Fast-food Restaurants
A new study released Monday by Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Los Angeles finds that fast-food workplace transmission of COVID-19 has likely been a significant, ongoing contributor to the spread of the disease throughout California during the last year of the pandemic, particularly among the workers of color who make up the vast majority of the state’s fast-food workforce.
New Film about Santa Susana Field Lab Features PSR-LA
PSR-LA is excited to be featured in In the Dark of the Valley, a new documentary film that chronicles the lives of a group of mothers turned advocates who come face to face with corporate interests and governmental apathy in their fight to clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL.)
PSR-LA’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
PSR-LA thanks all who joined us on November 18 as we celebrated and reflected on our 40 years of innovative advocacy.
Trump Administration Announces It Is Breaking Santa Susana Field Laboratory Cleanup Agreement
The Trump Administration today issued its Record of Decision (ROD) regarding the cleanup of contamination on NASA’s portion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL.) The decision is to violate a legally binding 2010 federal-state agreement that required returning the site to the condition it was in before being polluted. Instead, NASA now plans to walk away from cleaning up the great majority of the contamination, leaving it to continue to migrate offsite. Half a million people live within ten miles of the site.
