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A former environmental aide to governor brown, a former head of the state epa, and the former chief lawyer of the dtsc have all switched sides and worked on behalf of boeing to kill a full cleanup of center suzannah. >> the center suzannah field laboratory is a really complex cleanup. it costs a lot of money. anytime it costs a lot of money, theres going to be politics at play. that leads to delay. >> in 2007 there was a consent order signed between the d t se and irresponsible parties. that bas...

Us. >> because it is cheaper for boeing to pay the relatively measly fees that your poor imposes and clean up the mess. you regulate boeing, not the other way around. >> we are a force to be reckoned with. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really, changed really healed. and im willing to have confrontation. not for confrontations sake, but to protect the people i care about. i still wanted to throw up afterwards. >> she has always been fierce. her motivation to never stop just keeps getting stronger and stronger...

>> congressman, all that information you just related as my understanding as well of where we are and nasa is committed to fulfilling the obligations under the afc. >> im tired of fighting. lets clean up the background. lets get this site closed. yes, things happen. theyre unfortunate, and weve made a commitment to cleaning it up. >> that cleanup was supposed to already have been concluded by 2017, and boeing in federal agencies have ensured it -- im certain that these federal agencies do not wa...

And i have seen a lot of falsehoods. >> oh my gosh. >> found no discernible difference as to health and safety. action alternatives. thats absurd. >> nasa claims that under federal environmental law, that they have to look at different alternative ways to clean up the santa suzanna field laboratory. they are wrong. california has been clear over the years, at the level that the site has to be cleaned up toos to background. if there is contamination, it gets cleaned up. >> we clearly signed an ag...

Ive worked in radiation cleanup. most sides have multiple fire crews, multiple trucks, tons of equipment. because it is a legitimate concern. theres no secrets surrounding the state of california and the fires wouldve happened here. >> after the fire, gse released an interim report. for them to release a report that shows them doing air monitoring after the fire is silly. the greatest risk was during the fire. and they have now admitted that the burned vegetation made the contaminants in the soi...

And we are praying to god that we finally get the cleanup, because sometimes i cannot sleep at night worrying that my children are in danger. and i know that i am not the only one. >> or pity me bill do not remember is that we are fitting a lifetime into a year or two, or three, or five. and that is true, its true for all of us. >> one of the things i wish we could have done, because she was in the process of getting a second wish granted. her wished was to go to klein felds and new york and try...

So i know. >> in 50 years of this kind of, work ive never experienced a kind of thing. nasa knows thats what its proposing to do is indefensible. and they took every measure that they could to prevent the public from hearing about it. >> for the responsible parties, this is a game. nasa and boeing continue to put forth a storyline, that their recommendations, their offerings of cleanup are adequate and we know as we have alluded to, that so many of the agents, there is absolutely no safe level. ...