Your Year-End Donation to Tri-Valley CAREs – Now Doubled!

by Scott Yundt | Dec 19, 2025 | Environmental Justice, Nuclear Weapons

Tri-Valley CAREs had an amazing 2025! In a time when the risks posed by nuclear weapons are growing, Tri-Valley CAREs work is more important than ever. Our staff, board and volunteers have made great strides in 2025 (click here for staff highlights). To read more...

Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Public Input

by Scott Yundt | Dec 15, 2025 | Environmental Justice, Nuclear Weapons

Tri-Valley CAREs supporter protests at a former National Environmental Policy Act hearing 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...

Tri-Valley CAREs Traveled to Nevada to Oppose Potential Resumption of Nuclear Testing

by Scott Yundt | Nov 19, 2025 | Nuclear Weapons

On November 21st, Scott Yundt and Tanvi Kardile from Tri-Valley CAREs gathered at “Peace Camp” at the gates of the Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site) to join other experts and activists from around the country in a display of...

Site 300 Hazardous Waste Permit Renewals Need Your Input

by Scott Yundt | Nov 7, 2025 | Environmental Justice

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! California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is proposing to renew two...

Just 100 Days Until US – Russia Nuclear Weapons Limits Agreement Expires

by Scott Yundt | Oct 27, 2025 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons

In just 100 days, the 2010 New Strategic Arms Control Treaty (New START), the last remaining arms control treaty between the US and Russia, the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, is set to expire. New START limits US and Russian nuclear forces to 1550 strategic...

Lawrence Livermore Lab Main Site: Critical Environmental & Health Concerns (2022 Five-Year Review)

by Anoushka Raj, Environmental Program Manager and Scott Yundt | Aug 29, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice, Nuclear Weapons

Overview: A Legacy of Contamination in a Community’s Backyard Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s main site in Livermore, CA has a decades-long legacy of toxic and radioactive pollution. Past operations, from a Naval air station in the 1940s, plus decades of...