But the lawsuit differs. It was filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab and the Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
“As a result of a secret negotiation without any input from the public, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control and Boeing sought to limit the site cleanup alternatives that would be considered by DTSC,” the lawsuit alleges.
The negotiations produced an 800-page agreement that supersedes a 2007 agreement between Boeing and the state, “substantially relaxing key cleanup requirements, allowing hundreds of times higher levels of toxic chemicals than previously permitted and leaving much of the contamination onsite,” the activist groups said in a release.
