Melissa Bumstead

Parent, activist

Parent, activist

Melissa Bumstead on KCRW

A battle has raged for decades on the western edge of Los Angeles County at the Santa Susana Field Lab.

‘In the Dark of the Valley’: Why is there still no clean-up of 1959 nuclear meltdown at Santa Susana?

A battle has raged for decades on the western edge of Los Angeles County at the Santa Susana Field Lab.

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