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Tri-Valley CAREs' board, staff, and group members meet with Senator Diane Feinstein in Washington, D.C.
(From left: Urs Cipolt, Tara Dorabji, Kelly Franger, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Scott Yundt, Fran Macy
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SILENCE IS ASSENT!

If you don't speak up and let your Senators and Representative know your views, they'll assume you agree with "Nuclear Insanity Forever."


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Public Comment Period Open: Livermore Lab's Toxic Waste Permit

The public comment period for Livermore Lab's Hazardous Waste Permit is open until August 3, 2015. We encourage you to submit your written comment as soon as possible.

Click here to open our "sign and send" comments. You can sign and send these in to the DTSC via email or mail. Add your own comment to the bottom if you wish.

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Click here to view the Draft Hazardous Waste Permit Renewal for Livermore Lab

Click here to view the Health Risk Assessment for Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facilities, LLNL, December 2010. (Prepared by LLNL for DTSC's Hazardous Waste Permit Renewal Process)

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July 9, 2013 Action Alert- Support the Budget Cut Amendment for Nuclear Bombs

Here are key "Talking Points" and the action YOU can take before July 11, 2013 to help reduce US nuclear weapons spending and protect communities around nuclear weapons facilities...

Click here to read more, including the upcoming events, from our electornic action alert.


May 15, 2012 Action Alert- Tell Your Represenative to support these four amendments to the NDAA

Here are key "Talking Points" and the action YOU can take before May 17, 2012 to help reduce US nuclear weapons spending and protect communities around nuclear weapons facilities...

Click here to read more, including the upcoming events, from our electornic action alert.


TELL THE "SUPER COMMITTEE" TO CUT FUNDING FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NOT THE POOR AND ELDERLY

Here are key "Talking Points" and 2 Actions YOU can take before Nov. 23, 2011 to help reduce US nuclear weapons spending...

Click here to read more...


Petition to Compel Adequate Funding to Clean Up Toxic and Radioactive Conamination at Livermore Lab

The Livermore Lab main site was placed on the EPA's Superfund list of the most contaminated sites in the United States in 1987 and the Lab's Site 300 near Tracy was placed on that list in 1990. Both locations are contaminated with radioactive and toxic materials that have oozed through soils, groundwater aquifers and some surface waters. While the DOE recieved an additional $6 billion (above annual appropriates) in federal "stimulus" funding to accelerte toxic and radioactive waste cleanup at its sites, zero "stimulus" funds have been allocated to the cleanup of the Livermore Lab main site or Site 300. With this petition, we call on the Administration and Congress to adequately fund cleanup at Livermore Lab. We further call for cessation of activities that continue to pollute.

Click here to download a PDF of the petition.

Click here to read more about the Superfund cleanup.


Tri-Valley CAREs: Take Action During the National Week of Action on the Nuclear Weapons Budget! May 31-June 5th

Right now, The U.S. Congress is considering the budget for next year, and, while it imposes a spending freeze on most domestic programs, somehow there's money to spare when it comes to nuclear weapons pork. The budget request for nuclear bomb activities next year is $7 billion, which is a 14% increase over last year's budget for the same programs, and a whopping 50% over the average spent on nuclear weapons during the Cold War Era.

This is outrageous, unnecessary, dangerous -- and expensive.

Worse, the budget has hundreds of millions in new nuclear "pork" for new bomb production plants that would enable the U.S. to increase its capacity to create new nuclear weapons in the future. For example, the budget proposes funding a new plutonium facility in New Mexico to enable a huge increase in the production of plutonium pits, which are the radioactive cores of nuclear weapons. This piece of toxic nuclear pork will cost taxpayers $225 million in the coming year, and about $4 billion by the time construction is complete. Moreover, the costs to non-proliferation and disarmament goals are incalculable.

Further the budget request includes $252 million for a study in 2011 to upgrade the B61 nuclear bomb, which the U.S. has deployed in Europe. While congress considers whether to spend our money on plans to "modify" and "life -extend" this nuke, Germany, Poland and others are pressing for its removal from Europe.

WHAT CAN YOU DO DURING NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION?

You have a crucial role to play because your Senators and Representatives will be voting on the nuclear weapons budget. Moreover, Senator Dianne Feinstein sits on the "appropriations" committee, which gives her a unique role in nuclear weapons funding decisions. Also call Senator Barbara Boxer and your local Congressional Representative. The Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Additionally you may send email via the web at feinstein.senate.gov and boxer.senate.gov. (Check the web for your Rep.)

Be sure to make your voice heard between May 31 and June 4, 2010. This is a national week of action on the nuclear weapons budget, called "Cut the Nuclear Pork." Your action to stop nuclear weapons will be made even more effective this week by the corresponding actions of your friends, neighbors and colleagues who will also be responding to this alert.

Last year, emails from people like you created the grassroots pressure that successfully eliminated funding for nuclear weapons from the economic stimulus bill. We can do it again and, this time, reduce the 2011 nuclear weapons budget!

Please call or email and ask YOUR elected officials to cut the nuclear weapons budget and to fund other, urgent priorities instead.

Thanks for speaking out and making your voice heard. 3 minutes.

Let us know if you have any questions you need answered in order to make that call or email.

And, let us know when you have called. We are keeping a count.

Thanks!

Peace,
Marylia


Petition to President Obama for the abolition of Nuclear Weapons

We wholeheartedly applaud President Obama for declaring, "I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." We commend President Obama for his courageous and historic recognition that "as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act." We call on President Obama to make good on that commitment and fullfill that responsibility by announcing at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference his initiation of good faith multilateral negotiations on an international agreement to abolish nuclear weapons, within our lifetimes! Yes we can!

Click here to download a PDF of the petition.


Tri-Valley CAREs: Take Action on Defense Funding Now!

The Department of Energy programs to clean up toxic and radioactive pollution in our environment -- including at Livermore Lab -- are being threatened as the House Armed Services Committee debates next year's Defense Authorization Bill.

Here is what is at stake:

WHAT CAN YOU DO TODAY AND TOMORROW?

On the side of "good", we know that Rep. Barney Frank will introduce an amendment to return more than $300 million to environmental cleanup.

The phone number for the Congressional Switchboard is (202)224-3121.

Please call your Congressperson in the House of Representatives and ask him or her to support Barney Frank's amendment to the Defense Authorization bill. Then, also ask him or her to oppose ANY amendments that cut funding for DOE cleanup activities.

Tell your member of Congress that it is that simple. Don't cut cleanup to pay for more weapons! Period!

We can win this, but we need you to make that call. It will only take about 3 minutes.

Let us know if you have any questions you need answered in order to make that call.

And, let us know when you have called. We are keeping a count.

You can see summaries of the amendments here.

Thanks!

Peace,
Marylia


Demand a new nuclear weapons policy!

Just sign and send the set of 4 postcards to let decision-makers know that you are in favor of a nuclear policy which prevents the spread of nuclear weapons, ends the pursuit of new warheads, halts continued weapons production, and calls for engagement with other nations to ensure that all existing stockpiles are verifiably dismantled.

  1. Download and print the postcards
  2. Copy on card stock -- you choose the color!
  3. Sign all four postcards:
  4. Stamp them and put them in the mail

Main Site Superfund Letter

Print, sign and send this letter to ensure there is enough money to carry out critical cleanup at the lab.


Stop the Bombplex

Just sign and send the set of 4 postcards to let decision-makers know that you OPPOSE the Dept. of Energy's plan to revamp and rebuild the nuclear weapons complex.

  1. Download and print the postcards
  2. Copy on card stock -- you choose the color!
  3. Sign all four postcards:
  4. Stamp them and put them in the mail
  5. Sit back and enjoy the fact that you helped stop the "bombplex"

  6. Write a letter to Sen. Feinstein opposing Reliable Replacement Warhead and Complex 2030

    Use these sample letters to craft your own and send it in to Sen. Feinstein (address included in the sample letters).


    The Time for Comments on Site 300 Superfund Cleanup is Now

    Print, sign and send this letter to make sure they clean up our community. The public comment period ends July 25th


    Write Your Representative About Reliable Replacement Warhead

    Print these editorials and send them both to your U.S. Senators and Representative with a short note explaining your reasons for opposing the Reliable Replacement Warhead program.