What’s New
It is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight: 2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement
Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its “Doomsday Clock” to the closest to midnight it has ever been. Due to the increased likelihood that humanity will suffer a global catastrophe, we are now just “85 seconds to midnight,” 4 seconds closer to midnight than we were last year.
Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Public Input
A November notice from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) erases the previously announced public involvement requirement and thereby fast-tracks increased plutonium use at its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after decades of limits protected the public from potential risks.
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...
We are Suing the Government for Documents… Again.
| Written by: Scott Yundt The Department of Energy and its sub agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration, have been categorically ignoring Tri-Valley CAREs request for documents for the past three years. By failing to provide any documents in response to...
Livermore Lab Releases Draft Site-Wide EIS & Public Comment Period Commences
| Written by: Scott Yundt Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today via the Federal Register that it has released the new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) to “analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with continuing LLNL...
Our Efforts Result in Enhanced Health Protections at the Lab: Final Hazardous Waste Permit Re-issued by State Agency
| Written by: Scott Yundt Since 2016, Livermore Lab has undergone a hazardous waste permitting process with the State of California’s Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC). The permit governs the storage, packaging and treatment of both hazardous wastes and “mixed”...
We Get Strategic! Planning for 2022-2023
Tri-Valley CAREs’ board of directors, staff, and members spent Saturday, September 17th together in a virtual planning retreat, facilitated again this year by Marcus Pegasus. We began the strategic process by “looking back” at the program priorities we chose at last...
A Dispatch from Our Forum: “What to Look for in the Livermore Lab SWEIS”
Tri-Valley CAREs hosted a virtual Community Forum on September 29, 2022 to bring attention to and discuss how a new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Livermore Lab can affect our health & environment. Participants from the Tri-Valley, greater...
It’s Our New Community Guide! Check it Out!
The Community Guide: Tri-Valley CAREs is pleased to announce our latest publication, “Community Guide to the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Livermore Lab.” This reader-friendly 16-page Guide, complete with charts and numerous photographs, is...
Come to our Community Forum!
Please join us VIRTUALLY ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 @ 7:30 PM https://tinyurl.com/57u366n4 Meeting ID: 818 8690 1971 Passcode: 803885 Para ver esta información en español HAGA CLIC AQUÍ! TRI-VALLEY CARES IS HOSTING A COMMUNITY FORUM “How a new Site-Wide...