by | Oct 11, 2024 | New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
By Marilyn Bechtel A three-years’-long quest by four public interest groups has taken a major step forward with a federal judge’s ruling that the government agencies responsible for U.S. nuclear weapons must thoroughly examine environmental consequences and potential...
by | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
“A federal court ruling: Coinciding with NNSA’s announcement of the first diamond-stamped pit, a US District Court ruled that the Energy Department and the NNSA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to properly consider alternatives...
by | Oct 4, 2024 | New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
By Matthew Impelli, Newsweek A federal judge ruled this week that some nuclear weapons sites in the U.S. do violate environmental regulations. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration violated environmental regulations by...
by | Oct 3, 2024 | New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
“Public scrutiny is especially important because the activities at issue here, by their very nature, result in the production of dangerous weapons and extensive amounts of toxic and radioactive waste,” a plaintiffs’ lawyer said. By Olivia Rosane,...
by | Oct 3, 2024 | New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
A U.S. Judge has ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at two sites in New Mexico and South Carolina in violation of environmental regulations MORGAN LEE Associated Press, ABC News...
by Scott Yundt | Oct 2, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
After several years of litigation, on September 30, United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled that the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (“NNSA”),...
