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.)
APHA Takes a Strong Stance Against Nuclear Weapons
On October 24, the same day as the 50th Ratification of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as well as the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the U.N., the American Public Health Association included language supportive of the Back from the Brink...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.”
