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.)
Nuclear Weapons To Be Illegal Under International Law!
Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles celebrates the historic 50th ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, triggering Entry into Force in January 2020. Today, Honduras ratified the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition...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.
National Network of Watchdog Groups Opposes Funding for Nuclear Weapons Test Prep
Today, three-dozen nuclear watchdog organizations sent an urgent message to Congress declaring resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States “absolutely unacceptable” and “dangerously destabilizing.”
PSR-LA Strongly Supports the Movement for Black Lives and the National Uprising Protesting the Murder of Black People
As an environmental health and justice organization, PSR-LA is fully committed to dismantling the systemic racism that perpetuates health and economic disparity in black communities. We cannot eliminate health threats from environmental racism if we do not first address the systemic racism that perpetuates it. We ask you to join us in the movement to demand justice and fight for an end to structural racism and oppression.
