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FY 2027’s $1.5T Defense Budget Proposal Marks the Highest in History!
President Donald Trump announced in February on social media he would ask Congress for a $1.5 trillion defense budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027–a massive $500 billion increase from this year’s Pentagon budget of $1 trillion!
Take Action: Save New START! Stop a New U.S.- Russia Arms Race
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – the New START Agreement – is set to expire on February 5, 2026, just this week!
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...
Tri-Valley CAREs Invited to Bonnie Raitt at Berkeley’s Greek Theater
She is not just a legendary musician. Bonnie Raitt is also a longtime peace and justice activist with ties to clean energy and anti-nuclear weapons groups, including us, Tri-Valley CAREs. This past Sunday, September 19, 2022, Bonnie invited us to host an informational...
LLNL nuclear program review
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano Editor, After a nearly 2-year delay, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that it will release a new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) in October. The plans that will be...
Residents must speak out on lab’s dangers
| Written by: Scott Yundt In 2020, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced it would be releasing a Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS). This document will “analyze the potential environmental impacts for continuing operations of LLNL for...
Your views: Join Town Hall to discuss Livermore Lab’s Site 300 explosives testing range
| Written by: Gail Rieger Site 300 is a high explosive testing range at the edge of Tracy. Livermore Lab conducts explosions, some inside a building and some in the open-air. The Environmental Protection Agency has placed Site 300 on its Superfund list of the most...
Time for involvement
| Written by: Gail Rieger Editor, Site 300 is an 11-square-mile high-explosives testing range on Corral Hollow Road at the western edge of Tracy. This is where Lawrence Livermore Lab conducts explosions, some inside a special building and some on “firing tables” in...
LLNL Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement Release Pending
| Written by: Mary Perner The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) recently announced it will release, for public comment, a draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) as required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The SWEIS is necessary...
Safeguard Our Families’ Health
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis After a nearly two-year delay, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that it will release a new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) in October. The plans that will...
Ukraine war and climate crisis set backdrop for atomic bomb commemoration
| Written by: Marilyn-Bechtel By Marilyn Bechtel LIVERMORE, Calif.—For decades, peace activists have gathered outside the West Gate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of two locations designing and developing every weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, to...
Making the Unthinkable Impossible
| Interviewee: Marylia Kelley KPFA Radio An interview with Tri-Valley CAREs' Executive Director Marylia Kelley on current nuclear threats and the August 6 release of the film, "Making the Unthinkable Impossible". LISTEN AT https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=384097....
Program Updates for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tri-Valley CAREs and other peace and justice groups that are part of the Livermore Conversion Project. The link is https://enlightenedfilms.com/august-rally/ Our theme this year is “Making...
Actualizaciones del programa para la conmemoración de Hiroshima y Nagasaki
| Translated by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Lo invitamos a conmemorar los bombardeos atómicos estadounidenses de Hiroshima y Nagasaki con Tri-Valley CAREs y otros grupos de paz y justicia que forman parte del Proyecto de Conversión Livermore. El enlace es...
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb used in war over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Estimates are that these two atomic...
Marking an Anniversary
| Written by: Mary Perner 77 years ago, this week (1945), the United States detonated two atomic bombs over Japan, executing unthinkable devastation on the people of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). Each bomb held the rough equivalent of 20 kilotons of...
Hiroshima-Nagasaki virtual rally from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab; additional speakers filmed in CA, NY and Russia
For Immediate Release, August 3, 2022 Sat., Aug. 6, 9:00 am PDT and rebroadcast Tues., Aug. 9, 9:00 am PDT https://enlightenedfilms.com/august-rally/ “MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE IMPOSSIBLE” Contacts: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore; cell, 925-255-3585,...
Do we need tactical nukes on US submarines?
| Written by: Tony Green A former sailor wants Congress to deny the comeback of the ‘low-yield’ cruise missiles because they are redundant, and dangerous. By Tri-Valley CAREs’ board member, Tony Green When I walked across the bow of the U.S.S. Topeka for the last time...
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Make a Difference with Tri-Valley CAREs
From the desk of Marylia Kelley Your generous support this summer will enable our programs to change nuclear policy, challenge federal budget priorities and assert our human right to air, land and water that is free of nuclear contamination. Your tax-deductible...
Virtual Rally to Commemorate Hiroshima & Nagasaki; Focus on Nuclear Abolition
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tri-Valley CAREs and other peace and justice groups that are part of the Livermore Conversion Project. We will provide updates on Livermore Lab and rededicate ourselves to the global...
Peace Fresno’s Stir It Up with Marylia Kelley
| Interviewee: Marylia Kelley Listen to a 30-minute interview with executive director Marylia Kelley and host Gerry Bill. Marylia offers updates on Tri-Valley CAREs, U.S. nuclear weapons, and current global nuclear dangers, including in Ukraine. LISTEN AT...
Passing the torch…
Passing the torch… It has been the honor of my lifetime to help establish Tri-Valley CAREs in 1983, and, then, in the years that followed, to serve as its Executive Director. Over the decades, Tri-Valley CAREs has blossomed from an informal affinity group into an...
U.S. should embrace nuclear weapons treaty
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis I’m increasingly concerned about the possibility of nuclear war. That risk is heightened by Russian nuclear saber-rattling and its war on Ukraine. But, in actuality, the possibility that a nuclear weapon could be launched...
Invisible No More
| Written by: Mary Perner On June 7, I joined a group of friends at the gates of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to raise our banners and our voices against the mounting threat of nuclear weapons. But that is only half the story. Equally, I was at...
Nuclear War
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis I am increasingly concerned about the possibility of nuclear war. That risk is heightened by Russian nuclear saber rattling and its war on Ukraine. But, in actuality, the possibility that a nuclear weapon could be launched...