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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...

| 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 Livermore Lab, like other U.S. nuclear weapons complex sites, is managed by private contractors. These...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

| 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...

| 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”...

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...