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Site 300 Hazardous Waste Permit Renewals Need Your Input
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Site 300, the high-explosives testing range in the hills near Tracy, is once again at a crossroads, and your participation is needed!
Critical Analysis of LLNL’s 2024 Annual Site Environmental Report
Executive Summary The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) 2024 Annual Site Environmental Report (ASER) describes effective groundwater remediation, shrinking contaminant plumes, and proactive protection of endangered species on its sites. However, a closer critical...
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...
Let’s eliminate nuclear weapons
| Written by: Judy Reynolds For those who share my concern about the dangers to humanity that nuclear weapons pose that was highlighted by Russian President Vladimir Putin when he used the threat of nuclear war in his attack on Ukraine, there is a statement being...
TRI-VALLEY CAREs JOINS NATIONWIDE CALL IN SUPPORT OF TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: “THE ONLY PATH TO TRUE SAFETY AND SECURITY”
immediate release: June 7, 2022 contact: Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, 925.255.3589 (c) In the face of widespread concern about the threat of nuclear weapons, Tri-Valley CAREs’ members will join with organizations and leaders across the country to release a...
Promote the Nuclear Ban Treaty at this Historic Time
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and nuclear saber rattling continue to bring the threat of nuclear war into the foreground of public attention. Nuclear hawks inside and outside of government are scheming to use the invasion as an excuse to further accelerate U.S. nuclear...
Site 300 education
| Written by: Raiza Bettis Editor, On Saturday, April 23, Tri-Valley CAREs had the honor to celebrate with Tracy residents Earth Day. This event was designed to empower, inspire and inform individuals on becoming active, responsible guardians and caretakers of our...
Tracy Earth Day 2022
On Saturday, April 23, Tracy residents celebrated Earth Day by planting trees and learning about our natural resources during a celebration held on Ninth Street in downtown Tracy. This event was designed to empower, inspire and inform individuals on becoming active,...
Good Friday vigil: No nuclear weapons, diplomacy, not war, in Ukraine
| Written by: Marilyn Bechtel By Marilyn Bechtel LIVERMORE, Calif. – As nuclear disarmament, peace and justice advocates gathered virtually April 15 for the annual Good Friday Worship and Witness focusing on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, they posed a...
Calling for Change
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis As the sun rose on Friday April 15, 2022, I commemorated Good Friday with Tri-Valley CAREs and the Ecumenical Peace Institute. As they have for decades, local peace advocates and interfaith organizations gathered to...