What’s New
Comments Submitted On Plutonium Pit PEIS – Stay tuned!
The 90 day public comment period on the government’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) officially closed on July 16th.
DOE Moving Forward with Project Velocity, Significant Rulemaking Changes that Put the Public at Risk
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is moving forward with an initiative known as “Project Velocity”, an ambitious effort to rewrite decades of internal rules governing the safety, construction, and oversight processes across the nuclear weapons complex.
Special Hybrid Meeting in Tracy & Zoom 9/18
Tracy Environmental Advisory Committee Tri-Valley CAREs Meeting WHEN: September 18 at 7:30 PM LOCATION: Workvine 209, 2311 North Tracy Blvd. Tracy, CA VIRTUAL MEETING LINK: http://bit.ly/4mMiGBD We will be proudly launching the Environmental Contaminant Map of the...
Tri-Valley CAREs Launches New Environmental Mapping Tool of the Tracy Area
In March of 2024, Tri-Valley CAREs was an inaugural recipient of the Environmental Justice Action Grant from the California Environmental Protection Agency (“CalEPA”) to support community member involvement in environmental and climate decision-making in San Joaquin...
Nuclear Safety Oversight Under Threat!
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB or Board) has safety oversight authority over the nuclear facilities at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), including Livermore Lab’s plutonium and tritium facilities. Without urgent action in the...
Bay Area Representative Has Co-Sponsored House Resolution 317! Let’s keep up the momentum…
A team of Tri-Valley CAREs staff members, Scott Yundt, Tanvi Kardile, and Dash Orel (who is a constituent) teamed up with our colleague Maylene Hughes at Physicians for Social Responsibility to meet with Bay Area Representative Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10 Walnut Creek). ...
Lawrence Livermore Lab Main Site: Critical Environmental & Health Concerns (2022 Five-Year Review)
Overview: A Legacy of Contamination in a Community’s Backyard Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s main site in Livermore, CA has a decades-long legacy of toxic and radioactive pollution. Past operations, from a Naval air station in the 1940s, plus decades of...
Plutonium Pit Lawsuit Recognized by the Nobel Peace Center! Check Out Our Video!
Tri-Valley CAREs, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch, and the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition were honored to be featured at the Nobel Peace Conference held in Oslo, Norway on August 6th, the...
Solemn and Powerful Gathering at the Livermore Lab Gates on the 80th Anniversary of the US Bombing of Hiroshima
Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The theme of the event was, 80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember our History, Reshape...
Fire at LLNL Sparks Community Concern Over Safety, Climate Risk
On Monday, July 21, a grass fire broke out around 1:00 p.m. near the intersection of Greenville Road and Patterson Pass Road on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Main Site in Livermore, CA. According to the Watch Duty app, the fire spread across five...
Report Out: Tri-Valley CAREs Meets with Livermore Lab Cleanup Staff and Regulatory Agencies
In early July, Tri-Valley CAREs convened a meeting that brought together the Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. EPA, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, contractors, and community members from Tri-Valley CAREs. These meetings are about the Superfund cleanup at the...
Stand with the Hibakusha and Stop Nuclear Weapons on August 6th at Livermore Lab
On August 6, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, we invite you to Livermore to stand with the Hibakusha (survivors) to say “Never Again.” This is an historical moment - the last living witnesses of the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945 and...
Tri-Valley CAREs’s Comments on Scoping of Plutonium Pit Production Plan Programmatic Environmental Review
After several years of litigation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Tri-Valley CAREs and our co-plaintiffs (Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch, and the Gullah Geechee Sea Island Coalition) were victorious in winning a full,...
90% of Livermore Lab Budget Now for Nuclear Weapons Activities; Renewable Energy Program Abolished – $0 Requested
The Trump Administration’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) for Livermore Laboratory has been released and it tops $2.9 billion for the first time! The Lab’s overall budget is up 16% from last year. Tri-Valley CAREs has long been advocating for Livermore...
LLNL 2024 Groundwater Cleanup Report Analysis
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been cleaning up volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in groundwater for over three decades, and the 2024 Annual Report shows steady but gradual progress. In 2024, the cleanup efforts removed about 31.3 kilograms of...
Tri-Valley CAREs Heads to DC! Take action to support our team…
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs member, We are on our way to make "good trouble" in Washington, DC and the timing is... critical! The White House is seeking a TRILLION DOLLARS for so-called national "defense" in the coming year! Yes, you read that right, for just one year! And...
“Scoping” Public Comment Period in First Step of the Court Ordered Plutonium Pit Production Plan Programmatic Environmental Review Now Complete
Opportunity to offer alternatives and comment on the plutonium pit support work planned at Livermore Lab and elsewhere! Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores of every nuclear weapon…
Confronting the Call to Resume Nuclear Testing
The United States conducted 1,032 explosive nuclear weapons tests, with its last being conducted underground at the Nevada Test Site in 1992. Four years later, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and despite never ratifying the treaty,...
Tri-Valley CAREs is excited to invite you to our upcoming Tracy Environmental Advisory Committee Meeting May 27 at 5:30 PM
📍 Location: Tri-Valley CAREs Tracy Office, Workvine 209, 2311 North Tracy Blvd. Tracy CA 📍 Virtual Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3YxKT5b TEAC is a space for Tracy residents to raise concerns about pollution and environmental health — and take action. Do you know about...
Rooted in Community: Reflections from Tracy Earth Day
On Saturday, April 27, Tri-Valley CAREs joined our friends and longtime collaborators at the Tracy Earth Project for their annual Tracy Earth Day celebration. People of all ages came out to connect with one another, learn about local environmental efforts, and take...
Celebrating Youth Voices: Tri-Valley CAREs 2025 Youth Video Contest Awardees
The Youth Environmental Video contest has been a meaningful part of our growing outreach in Tracy and surrounding areas, where we’re working hard to build awareness and community power around environmental health and justice. Over the past few months, we’ve been...
Tell Your Representative to Co-Sponsor House Resolution 317!
On April 10th, two US Members of Congress, Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-02) and Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-2), introduced H. Res. 317 laying out the common sense steps needed to reduce nuclear risks and move toward a world free of nuclear weapons. This official title of the bill...
Good Friday Event at the Gates of Livermore Lab
What: An Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness @ Livermore Lab When: April 18th, 2025, Gather at 7:45am, Starts at 8am Where: Southwest “East Ave.” Gate, East Avenue at S. Vasco Road or online via Zoom Tri-Valley CAREs supports the annual gathering at the gates of...
New Administration’s Attack on Environmental Justice Begins to Take Effect
On Tuesday, March 25 2025, Tri-Valley CAREs joined allies in urgent action against the federal government’s escalating attacks on environmental justice. The rally, held in response to sweeping deregulation efforts, gathered community members, advocates, and organizers...
Livermore Lab Performance Critiqued – Warhead Delays Noted, Plutonium Pit Work Touted
For nearly a decade, Tri-Valley CAREs, along with colleague organizations Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Savannah River Site Watch have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to request the Annual Performance Evaluation Reports (PERs) for National Nuclear Security...
Tri-Valley CAREs Uncovers Cause of Corral Fire
The Corral Fire ignited on June 1, 2024, in the southeast portion of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) Site 300, a 7,000-acre experimental test site near Tracy, California. Fueled by high winds averaging 32.7 mph (with gusts up to 43.1 mph), the fire...
Take Action! Support Coordinated Day of Action to Raise Awareness on Capitol Hill of the Danger of Nuclear War!
Today, we are supporting the efforts of peace, faith, and disarmament groups who are joining together in Washington DC for a coordinated Day of Action to distribute signed copies of Annie Jacobsen’s powerful book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, to every single member of...
Tri-Valley CAREs Comments on the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement Analyzing Livermore Lab’s Proposed Enhanced Plutonium Utilization
Since Livermore Lab’s January announcement that it is preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to analyze its proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization,” Tri-Valley CAREs has focused on organizing the community to engage in the public...
The Third Meeting of State Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is March 3rd-7th!
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2017 in response to both the failings of the nuclear weapons states to take affirmative steps to disarm as required by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and as a...
Livermore Lab Main Site Superfund Cleanup Update: 2025 Plans, Community Walks and New Factsheet
At Tri-Valley CAREs, we are excited to share our latest updates on the Superfund cleanup at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)! Thanks to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), we are proud to be among the first recipients of the...
SPEAK OUT! Send a Comment Oppose Plutonium Utilization Proposed at Livermore Lab – Public Comment Period Extended to Monday, March 3rd
In early January, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced it is preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement…
If President Trump and Elon Musk want to cut federal waste, they should listen to activists who’ve been targeting the land-based leg of the nuclear triad for decades.
Scott Yundt, Executive Director at Tri-Valley CAREs, says the ICBM test launches at Vandenberg “only serve to provoke other nuclear weapon states.”