What’s New
Wild & Scenic Film Festival and Eco Fair Brings Community Together for Environmental Action
As an Honors Political Science student at Las Positas College, environmental protection is a topic that deeply interests me. This spring semester I am interning with Tri-Valley CAREs focusing on nuclear policy and environmental justice. On Friday, February 27, I joined board member Mary Perner to table at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival and Eco Fair at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore.
Tri-Valley CAREs Director and Former Director Featured on Podcast!
Tri-Valley CAREs’ Executive Director Scott Yundt and our former Executive Director (current Senior Advisor) Marylia Kelley, were recently invited on the popular East Bay Yesterday podcast.
Jan. 22 is a Historic Day
| Written by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Jan. 22 is a historic day - it’s the day that the Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear weapons entered into force and became part of international law. The treaty bans the development, testing, manufacture, acquisition,...
Join Us to Celebrate the TPNW!
January 22 marks the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Fifty-nine states parties have ratified the TPNW to date, with Peru becoming the most recent country to do so in December. In Livermore, we will...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Reflections of Dr. King on Nuclear Weapons Abolition
| Interviewee: Marylia Kelley January 14, 2022 Source: KZFR Radio Interview with Tri-Valley CAREs’ Marylia Kelley on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the upcoming first anniversary of its entry into force. Also observance of Dr. Martin Luther...
MLK Day January 17, 2022: Remembering King’s Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
By Ralph Hutchison, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, and Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs More than fifty years after his death, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered as a civil rights icon, recalled for his stirring words at the Lincoln Memorial...
Join us on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022 at 9 AM
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Building a Movement, Celebrating a Milestone
Later this month, the world will mark the first anniversary of the “entry into force” of the United Nation’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The TPNW became part of international law on January 22, 2021 after 50 countries ratified it. And, we celebrated...
Your Voice is Your Power
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We are Honored…
Happy New Year! Despite great odds, we have had a tremendous year together, pursuing disarmament through the entry into force of Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, preventing Livermore Lab from detonating huge open-air bomb blasts locally, and so much...
Together we are making a difference!
From the desk of Marylia Kelley Your generous, year-end support for Tri-Valley CAREs enables programs that change nuclear policy, challenge budget priorities, and assert our human right to air, land and water that is free of nuclear contamination. Your financial gift...
Join Us! LLNL Hazardous Waste Permit Virtual Public Meeting with State Regulators – Thursday, 12/9 at 6:30PM
As we previously reported here (https://trivalleycares.org/new/Lab-Hazardous-Waste-Permit-Public-Comment-Period-2.pdf), Livermore Lab’s hazardous waste management is undergoing a permitting process with the State of California’s Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC)....
Thank You!
From the desk of Marylia Kelley… We are thankfulThis week we pause to honor families, friends and the harvest celebrations of cultures worldwide. It’s also a time of reflection, and here at Tri-Valley CAREs our thoughts turn to you and to all those who make our...
Gracias!
| Translated by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Desde el escritorio de Marylia Kelley ... Nosotros estamos agradecidosEsta semana hacemos una pausa para honrar a las familias, los amigos y las celebraciones de la cosecha de las culturas de todo el mundo. También es un...
El período de comentarios públicos comienza (nuevamente) sobre los desechos peligrosos de Livermore Lab: el estado anuncia una reunión pública virtual
| Translated by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Tri-Valley CAREs ha monitoreado la gestión de desechos peligrosos de Livermore Lab y sus muchos problemas durante cuatro décadas. El laboratorio maneja, almacena y “trata” cantidades significativas y peligrosas de desechos...
Public Comment Period Begins (Again) on Livermore Lab’s Hazardous Waste: State Announces Virtual Public Meeting
Tri-Valley CAREs has monitored Livermore Lab’s hazardous waste management, and its many problems, for four decades. The Lab handles, stores and “treats” hazardous and significant quantities of mixed radioactive waste (which means its radioactive stuff and hazardous...
Congress must slash bloated military budget
| Written by: Loulena Miles By Loulena Miles The U.S. nuclear weapons and military budgets increased dramatically under Donald Trump and sickeningly, will increase again under Joe Biden. But this year’s check has not yet been signed by Congress. Now is a great time to...
Nuclear weapons monitors demand environmental review of new bomb production plans
| Written by: Marilyn Bechtel By Marilyn Bechtel Four public interest groups monitoring the nation’s nuclear weapons development sites are demanding the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency conduct a thorough environmental review of their...
Groups Fire Back at Feds’ Move to Dismiss Plutonium Pit Lawsuit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER 26, 2021 Media Contacts: Leslie Lenhardt, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, (843) 527-0078, leslie@scelp.org Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, in CA, (925) 255-3589, marylia@earthlink.net Tom Clements, SRS Watch, in S. Carolina,...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ New Strategic Plan
The Tri-Valley CAREs board members and staff recently got together to think strategically, review our progress on last year’s priorities, and choose the group’s program priorities for the coming year. After reviewing the past year we looked carefully at strategic...
INVITATION
Mon., Aug. 9th – Nagasaki Day – 9 AM PacificWe invite you to participate on August 9th at 9 AM Pacific in an amazing virtual rally with Nagasaki survivor, Nobuaki Hanaoka, Daniel Ellsberg, Nell Myhand, Tsukuru Fors, John Burroughs, Marylia Kelley, Marshallese climate...
Join Us on August 6th and 9th
Commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stand with the Hibakusha. Abolish nuclear weapons. You are invited to tune in and act for positive change! We invite you to participate in a virtual rally with Daniel Ellsberg, Nobuaki Hanaoka, Nell Myhand, Tsukuru Fors, John...
Every Day is a Good Day to Stop Nuclear Bombs
Dear members and friends, Every day is a good day to stop nuclear bombs, but now is a particularly crucial time to support Tri-Valley CAREs’ work to abolish nuclear weapons globally and address the health and environmental harms that occur with nuclear development. To...
Groups File Lawsuit Over Plutonium Bomb Core Production
Complaint alleges that the government’s refusal to review nationwide impacts of plutonium pit production is illegalToday, a coalition of community and public interest groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security...
Livermore Lab Budget Request for Fiscal 2022: Weapons Up, Science Down… Again
Tri-Valley CAREs has more news on President Biden’s first annual budget. Finally the Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been released, months later than usual. The numbers show a continued momentum for...
International Nuclear Weapons Spending Analyzed in New Report
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) issued a new report entitled Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending that outlines the $72.6 billion spent by the nine nuclear weapons states on their nuclear weapons programs during the 2020...
South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Nuclear Watchdogs from Across the U.S. to Hold Virtual Press Conference
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2021 WHAT: Public interest groups will hold a Zoom press conference for a major announcement of a forthcoming legal action as the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration forge ahead with...
June Virtual LTE Writing Party
CLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link. Meeting ID: 832 7450 8584 • Password: 622864 Please click links below for A "How to" guide on how to write letters to the editor (English & Spanish). Remember, Your Voice is Power. CLICK HERE "How to" in English...
Careening Over the Nuclear Precipice: New Warheads in the First Biden Budget
Tri-Valley CAREs’ Analysis of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request, Part One…Over the course of four years, the Trump Administration increased funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to redesign nuclear...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ June Virtual Meeting
Tri-Valley CAREs' would like to remind you of our monthly virtual meeting that will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday June 17, 2021. Our monthly meetings are open to all interested members of the public. You will get up-to-the-minute reports on nuclear issues, and become...
Join Us on August 6 and 9
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki seventy-six years ago on August 6 and 9, 1945. The explosions created shadows where there had been people. On many levels nuclear shadows have been with us each day since, and they are with us today. On August 6...
Tri-Valley CAREs Zooms into Washington, DC
Posted by the TVC DC Days team: Marylia Kelley, Raiza Marciscano-Bettis, Scott Yundt, Mary Perner, Inga Olson and Pam Richard A team of advocates from Tri-Valley CAREs is Zooming (literally) into Washington, DC this month to participate in “DC Days,” an annual event...