“The state and Boeing have quietly begun mediating the long-planned cleanup of the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory site near Simi Valley, a move activists and Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks fear will water down the cleanup.
The mediation offer from the state did not come to light until a nonprofit environmental group, the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, posted the Jan. 22 letter on its site, peer.org, and issued a news release about it last week.”