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We Asked, And GAO Listened: GAO Issues a Report Saying NNSA Should Improve its Cost Growth Notification Process
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) construction projects and nuclear warhead development programs have historically experienced major cost overruns, including at Livermore Lab.
Our Executive Director Talks on the Peace and Justice Program on all Things Nuclear!
On February 13, Tri-Valley CAREs’ Executive Director, Scott Yundt, talked with Chris Nelson on the Peace and Justice Program on KZFR 90.1 FM on a variety of nuclear weapons topics!
Virtual Panel on Nuclear Fusion “Breakthrough”? Featuring Tri-Valley CAREs Executive Director & Co-Founder, Marylia Kelley – June 8 – 11:00-12:15pm PST
Join us June 8 for this virtual panel – In December 2022, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
Livermore Lab Budget: Everything for Nukes, Pennies for Cleanup
As the United States debates paying its prior year bills (the debt) and some members of Congress want draconian cuts to social programs that make up less than 15% of the federal budget, military spending continues to spiral out of control. The President’s Fiscal Year...
Tri-Valley CAREs and Colleagues Recently Held a Congressional Staff Briefing on Plutonium Pits
You may have heard that Tri-Valley CAREs was recently in Washington, DC with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) for its annual advocacy week – “DC Days 2023”. On Friday, April 28, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations put the “capstone” on DC Days...
DC Days 2023
Your Tri-Valley CAREs team has just returned from a consequential week in Washington, DC meeting with members of Congress and the Biden Administration. In DC, we were joined by 50 activists from other front-line communities around the country for the Alliance for...
Environmental awareness
Editor, Earth Day is an annual event that began in 1970 as a way to increase environmental awareness. This message has become even more relevant today. Tri-Valley CAREs and its Tracy members are delighted to participate in Tracy Earth Day 2023. We will have a booth...
Join us in Celebrating Tracy Day 2023!
Tracy will be holding an Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. next to Farmers Market on 9th Street and Central Ave, downtown Tracy. We invite you to come to Tracy's Earth Day event for some family fun. Together, we will...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab
The annual Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab was a hybrid event this year. A couple dozen participants from the Ecumenical Peace Institute, Livermore Conversion Project, and Tri-Valley CAREs met at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab’s West Gate. Many more...
Announcing Our New Executive Director!
From the desk of Loulena Miles, board president… Dear Tri-Valley CAREs community, As our organization – and its crucial nuclear policy work – enter its 40th year, I have wonderful news to share that reflects both on our decades of success and our future achievements....
Your Team Heads to Congress
Tri-Valley CAREs is in a whirlwind of preparations for “DC Days” 2023. This 4-day event in late April brings activists from around the country to Washington, DC to speak truth to power to Congress and the Administration about the impacts of nuclear weapons on our...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab: A call for a nuclear weapon-free future
By MARILYN BECHTEL LIVERMORE, Calif.—On this Good Friday, as nuclear disarmament, peace, and justice advocates gathered in person and virtually at the gates of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their annual Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness, the...
Thank You from Tri-Valley CAREs
Tri-Valley CAREs would like to thank everyone in the community who submitted comments on the Livermore Lab Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS). The SWEIS process is intended to provide the public with analysis of the potential environmental...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab plus Live Broadcast
The annual Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab will be a hybrid event this year. You are invited to join the Ecumenical Peace Institute, Livermore Conversion Project, and Tri-Valley CAREs at the Livermore Lab West Gate, at the corner of Vasco and...
Review of LLNL Management Reveals Concerns
| Posted by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Tri-Valley CAREs recently received the Fiscal Year 2022 Performance Evaluation Report (PER) for Livermore Lab in response to our Freedom of Information Act requests. Livermore Lab, like other U.S. nuclear weapons complex sites, is...
Government Releases 2021 “Performance Evaluation Reports” for its Contractor Managed Nuclear Weapons Complex Sites, Including Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs
Government Releases 2021 “Performance Evaluation Reports” for its Contractor Managed Nuclear Weapons Complex Sites, Including Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs Livermore Lab, like other U.S. nuclear weapons complex sites, is managed by private contractors. These...
Judge Rules Our Plutonium Pit Lawsuit Can Continue!
After months of waiting for a decision, the federal judge in our case (filed by Tri-Valley CAREs, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, Savannah River Site Watch and Nuclear Watch New Mexico) against the U.S. Energy Department has denied the defendant’s motions...
East Bay Members of Congress Call on NNSA to Extend Public Comment Period for LLNL Environmental Review
Three East Bay Members of Congress, John Garamendi, Eric Swalwell and Mark DeSaulnier, submitted a joint letter to the Administrator and Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, Jill Hruby, on February 9, 2023 requesting that the NNSA “make every effort to provide...
District Court Denies Department of Energy’s Motion to Dismiss Plutonium Pits Suit
In a win for public participation and environmental protection, the United States District Court of South Carolina denied the Department of Energy’s motion to dismiss a 2021 legal action filed by multiple citizen groups. The suit was prompted by the agencies’ failure…
Tri-Valley CAREs Celebrates the 2nd “Baniversay” of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
On Friday, January 20, 2023, Tri-Valley CAREs members gathered at the gates of Livermore Lab to observe the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We brought instruments and banners that we opened up as the lab...
History Day Coming
Jan.22 is a historic day. That’s the day we celebrate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’ entry into force in 2021, aka the “Ban-iversary.” Because the US has not signed the Treaty, the legal prohibitions do not technically apply to us. But the...
Detailed comments on the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operations of Livermore Lab
Tri-Valley CAREs along with colleague group Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, San Francisco and East Bay Branches, Submitted detailed comments on the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operations of Livermore Lab. Stay tuned for...
Russia’s Long Game in the War with Marylia Kelley
Listen to a 10-minute interview with executive director Marylia Kelley and host Lauren Billet. They discuss President Eisenhower’s military industrial complex speech and where we currently see unprecedented spending on the military and nuclear weapons development....
A “Sign and Send” Letter That You Can Use:
We at Tri-Valley CAREs have composed a 7-point comment letter that we are asking you to send to the National Nuclear Security Administration during the public comment period on the Livermore Lab’s environmental review. The comment period closes on Wednesday, January...
Honoring the Life: Continuing the Work
Tri-Valley CAREs’ staff, board and members honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday, January 15. And, we celebrate his holiday on the third Monday of January each year. Equally important, we strive to carry on his work every day. Dr. King was...
Celebrate the 2nd “Baniversary” of the TPNW with Us!
January 22, 2023 marks the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Notably, 68 counties have ratified the Treaty so far. If you are counting, and we are, 9 new countries have ratified TPNW since this time last...
On NIF, Nuclear Weapons and Fusion Hype
On December 13, the Department of Energy (DOE) and Livermore Lab held a press conference and, with maximum hoopla, announced that an experiment at the National Ignition Facility earlier that month had achieved fusion “ignition”. Many people have contacted us in the...
Today at 6pm PST: Virtual Public Hearing for Livermore Lab Environmental Review
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is conducting a virtual public hearing via Zoom today at 6pm Pacific Time for the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) on Livermore Lab’s current and future operations. This...
Shocking Plans in Livermore Lab SWEIS
As you may know from Tri-Valley CAREs recent electronic newsletters, the National Nuclear Security Administration is undertaking a new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Continued Operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This is an...
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Ask for Extension of Comment Period on Livermore Lab Review
Tri-Valley CAREs received word today from the National Nuclear Security Administration regarding our organization’s request for a 30-day extension of the public comment period for the Livermore Lab Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS). The NNSA response...
Government Announces Virtual Public Hearing for Livermore Lab Environmental Review on Tuesday, December 13
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that it will conduct a virtual public hearing via Zoom for the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) on Livermore Lab’s current and future operations. This meeting is...
Giving Tuesday is here!
To support environmental justice, cleanup of nuclear pollution, and the abolition of nuclear weapons, please consider a tax-deductible contribution to Tri-Valley CAREs. Giving Tuesday is, at its heart, a generosity movement in our modern times – it sets aside a...