EPA threatens Field Lab study

Frustrated with a lack of transparency in the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab, the U.S. EPA has fired off a harsh letter to the Energy Department threatening to pull out of a long-awaited radiation study at the former nuclear research site. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

In a July 2 letter, EPA Site Cleanup Branch Chief Michael Montgomery warned that "recent events demonstrate a significant lack of transparency in DOE's interactions with EPA and the public."

Montgomery also wrote that the Energy Department planned to use radiation standards that were far more lax than EPA guidelines.