KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CA: Exide Cleanup Under Fire for Leaving Homes With...
Friday, August 4, 2017By Matthew Glasser & Angie Crouch, KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CAKNBC TV-4 Los Angeles,...
View ArticleAdvocates: Exide Cleanup Plan Leaves Many To 'Fend For Ourselves'
Friday, July 7, 2017By Rebecca Plevin, KPCC 89.3FM KPCC 89.3FMhttp://www.scpr.org/news/2017/07/07/73611/advocates-exide-cleanup-plan-leaves-many-to-fend-f/Click here to listen to the audio of this...
View ArticleKNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CA: Liza Tucker Weighs In On Regulators' Failure To...
Source:KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CAConsumer Watchdog's environmental advocate Liza Tucker discusses how environmental regulators failed to adequately test the area adjacent to a summer camp, which was a...
View ArticleToxics Regulators Review 'No Action' Decisions By Scientists In Email Scandal
Wednesday, May 18, 2016By Elizabeth Aguilera, KPCC 89.3 FM Pasadena, CAKPCC 89.3 FM Pasadena, CAhttp://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/18/60733/toxics-regulators-review-no-action-decisions-by-sc/Click here...
View ArticleAdvocates Argue DTSC Executive Departures Reflect Dysfunction, Unease
Thursday, May 12, 2016By Curt Barry, INSIDE CAL/EPAINSIDE CAL/EPAEnvironmentalists and civil rights advocates are charging that recent resignations by a host of top executives and managers at the...
View ArticleConsumer Watchdog Applauds Governor Brown For $176.6 Million Cleanup Of East...
Contact Info Name:Liza Tucker Email:liza@consumerwatchdog.orgWednesday, February 17, 2016 Related Focus Areas: Toxics WatchdogThumbnail: Santa Monica, CA -- Governor Brown’s announcement today that the...
View ArticleGov. Brown Proposes $177 Million For Exide Lead Contamination Cleanup
Wednesday, February 17, 2016By Elizabeth Aguilera, KPCC 89.3 FM Pasadena, CAKPCC 89.3 FM Pasadena, CAhttp://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/17/57646/governor-proposes-176-million-for-exide-clean-up/After...
View ArticleKOVR TV-13 Sacramento: Consumer Group Calls For Investigation Into Racist...
Source:KOVR TV-13 SacramentoConsumer Watchdog called for an investigation into racist emails sent by Department of Toxic Substances Control employees about the citizens they are supposed to be...
View ArticleConsumer Watchdog Demands Full Investigation by Senate Leader of Racist...
Contact Info Name:Liza Tucker & Jamie Court Email:liza@consumerwatchdog.orgWednesday, December 9, 2015 Related Focus Areas: Access to JusticeToxics WatchdogThumbnail: Santa Monica, CA — Consumer...
View ArticleToxics Agency Chief Condemns Racially Charged Emails
Wednesday, December 9, 2015By Patrick McGreevy, LOS ANGELES TIMESLOS ANGELES TIMEShttp://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-pc-toxics-agency-chief-condemns-racially-charged-emails-20151209-story.htmlThe...
View ArticleRacist Remarks In Emails Put California Officials On Defensive
Wednesday, December 9, 2015By Jon Ortiz, SACRAMENTO BEESACRAMENTO BEEhttp://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article48891175.htmlRacist repartee found in state emails has...
View ArticleLax Regulatory Enforcement Leaves Thousands at Risk of Lead Poisoning in...
Sunday, November 22, 2015By Daniel Ross, TRUTHOUTTRUTHOUThttp://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33749-lax-regulatory-enforcement-leaves-thousands-at-risk-of-lead-poisoning-in-californiaThis story could not...
View ArticleCity of Industry Battery Recycler Ordered To Test For Lead Pollution
Thursday, November 19, 2015By Molly Peterson, KPCC 89.3FM SoCal Public RadioKPCC 89.3FM SoCal Public RadioIn the wake of a growing lead pollution investigation in neighborhoods around the now shuttered...
View ArticleKNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CA: L.A.'s Nuclear Secret
Source:KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CAThe Santa Susana Field Laboratory, tucked in the hills between the San Fernando and Simi Valleys, is putting the health of thousands of Los Angeles and Ventura County...
View ArticleLA's Nuclear Secret: Part 2
Tuesday, September 22, 2015By Joel Grover, KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CAKNBC TV-4 Los Angeles, CAhttp://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/LA-Nuclear-Secret-Part-2-328640391.htmlThe Santa Susana Field...
View ArticleDemocracy At Work
When the confirmation of California’s top toxics regulator was over, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de Leon addressed the audience: “You saw democracy working…” But was this really democracy at...
View ArticleIrwindale City Officials Must Block Hazardous Waste Facility Alongside Santa...
Decision To Grant Facility A Permit In Violation of City Zoning Is Latest Snafu By State’s Top Toxics RegulatorContact Info Name:Liza Tucker Email:liza@consumerwatchdog.orgTuesday, April 7, 2015...
View ArticleCleaning Up Exide, After Decades of Pollution and Misconduct
Monday, March 16, 2015By Warren Olney, WHICH WAY LA? KCRW 89.9FMWHICH WAY LA? KCRW...
View ArticleConsumer Watchdog Calls for Defunding or Major Reform of Top Toxics Regulator...
Contact Info Name:Liza Tucker Email:liza@consumerwatchdog.org Phone Number:310-392-7931, or 626-372-1964 (cell)Thursday, March 12, 2015 Related Focus Areas: Dirty Money WatchToxics WatchdogThumbnail:...
View ArticleBroad Coalition Unites To Urge Governor Brown To Overturn Decision To Build...
Top Toxics Regulator Misunderstands Basic Environmental Justice, Consumer Watchdog SaysContact Info Name:Liza Tucker Email:liza@consumerwatchdog.orgWednesday, March 4, 2015 Related Focus Areas: Toxics...
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