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Celebrating Youth Voices: Tri-Valley CAREs 2025 Youth Video Contest Awardees
by Anoushka Raj, Environmental Program Manager | April 18, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice | 0 Comments
The Youth Environmental Video contest has been a meaningful part of our growing outreach in Tracy and surrounding areas, where we’re working hard to build awareness and community power around environmental health and justice. Over the past few months, we’ve been busy—tabling at local farmers’ markets, connecting with...
Tell Your Representative to Co-Sponsor House Resolution 317!
by Scott Yundt | April 15, 2025 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons | 0 Comments
On April 10th, two US Members of Congress, Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-02) and Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-2), introduced H. Res. 317 laying out the common sense steps needed to reduce nuclear risks and move toward a world free of nuclear weapons. This official title of the bill is, “Urging the United States to lead the world back from the...
Good Friday Event at the Gates of Livermore Lab
by Scott Yundt | April 4, 2025 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons | 0 Comments
What: An Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness @ Livermore Lab When: April 18th, 2025, Gather at 7:45am, Starts at 8am Where: Southwest “East Ave.” Gate, East Avenue at S. Vasco Road or online via Zoom Tri-Valley CAREs supports the annual gathering at the gates of the Lab on Good Friday, and this year our Executive...
New Administration’s Attack on Environmental Justice Begins to Take Effect
by Anoushka Raj, Environmental Program Manager | April 3, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice | 0 Comments
On Tuesday, March 25 2025, Tri-Valley CAREs joined allies in urgent action against the federal government’s escalating attacks on environmental justice. The rally, held in response to sweeping deregulation efforts, gathered community members, advocates, and organizers in defense of environmental protections and frontline...
New Environmental Justice Coalition Protests EPA Cuts
by | March 27, 2025 | Environmental Justice, TVC in the News | 0 Comments
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC PRESS - By Audrey Mei Yi Brown, March 26, 2025 About 150 Bay Area residents and advocates for environmental justice gathered on the steps of an Environmental Protection Agency office in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday to protest the Trump administration’s rollbacks of environmental protections....
Livermore Lab Performance Critiqued – Warhead Delays Noted, Plutonium Pit Work Touted
by Scott Yundt | March 20, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons | 0 Comments
For nearly a decade, Tri-Valley CAREs, along with colleague organizations Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Savannah River Site Watch have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to request the Annual Performance Evaluation Reports (PERs) for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) nuclear weapons sites. Due to our...
Tri-Valley CAREs Uncovers Cause of Corral Fire
by Anoushka Raj, Environmental Program Manager | March 19, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice | 0 Comments
The Corral Fire ignited on June 1, 2024, in the southeast portion of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) Site 300, a 7,000-acre experimental test site near Tracy, California. Fueled by high winds averaging 32.7 mph (with gusts up to 43.1 mph), the fire rapidly spread across almost 15,000 acres, damaging...
Take Action! Support Coordinated Day of Action to Raise Awareness on Capitol Hill of the Danger of Nuclear War!
by Scott Yundt | March 11, 2025 | Blog, Events, Nuclear Weapons | 0 Comments
Today, we are supporting the efforts of peace, faith, and disarmament groups who are joining together in Washington DC for a coordinated Day of Action to distribute signed copies of Annie Jacobsen’s powerful book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, to every single member of Congress, including yours! This is a terrific opportunity to...
Tri-Valley CAREs Comments on the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement Analyzing Livermore Lab’s Proposed Enhanced Plutonium Utilization
by Scott Yundt | March 6, 2025 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons | 0 Comments
Since Livermore Lab’s January announcement that it is preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to analyze its proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization,” Tri-Valley CAREs has focused on organizing the community to engage in the public “scoping” process. This included helping assisting...
The Third Meeting of State Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is March 3rd-7th!
by Dasha Orel, Tri-Valley CAREs Intern | March 5, 2025 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons | 0 Comments
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2017 in response to both the failings of the nuclear weapons states to take affirmative steps to disarm as required by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and as a recognition that nuclear weapons have already had major...