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From the desk of Loulena Miles, board president… Dear Tri-Valley CAREs community, As our organization – and its crucial nuclear policy work – enter its 40th year, I have wonderful news to share that reflects both on our decades of success and our future achievements. I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that our long-time Staff Attorney, Scott Yundt, will be taking over as the new Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs starting in July 2023. Over the past year a transition committee met frequently to find the right candidate to lead Tri-Valley CAREs through its first executive transition. After months of screening applicants and interviews, the Committee and Board made a unanimous...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 13, 2023 | South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Savannah River Site Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition VIEW/DOWNLOAD AS PDF In a win for public participation and environmental protection, the United States District Court of South Carolina denied the Department of Energy’s motion to dismiss a 2021 legal action filed by multiple citizen groups. The suit was prompted by the agencies’ failure to take the “hard look” required by the National Environmental Policy Act at their plans to more than quadruple the production of plutonium pits for new nuclear weapons and split their production between the Los...

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, [email protected] Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation; cell 510-306-0119, [email protected] Grace Morizawa, Asian Americans for Peace and Justice; cell, 510-289-1285, [email protected] WHAT: “Making the Unthinkable Impossible” a rally filmed at the gates of the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and beyond. Speakers include a former Pentagon war planner, a Russian physicist-engineer joining virtually from St....

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 Statement on the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons and on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s West Gate on Vasco Road at 9 AM on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The statement (full text below) calls on the US and all nuclear-armed states to take immediate steps to engage the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It also calls on the media to include the Treaty in all...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER 26, 2021 Media Contacts: Leslie Lenhardt, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, (843) 527-0078, [email protected] Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, in CA, (925) 255-3589, [email protected] Tom Clements, SRS Watch, in S. Carolina, (803) 834-3084, [email protected] Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, (505) 989-7342, c. (505) 470-3154, [email protected] Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition [email protected] Groups Fire Back at Feds’ Move to Dismiss Plutonium Pit Lawsuit Federal agencies continue to reject a full review of the public safety and environmental risks of producing nuclear bomb cores across multiple cross-country sites AIKEN, S.C. —...

Media Advisory; For Immediate Release: August 3, 2021 Hybrid Live/Virtual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Rally and March at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab Fri., Aug. 6, 9:00 am PDT (live/pre-recorded); Mon., Aug. 9, 9:00 am PDT (rebroadcast) Contacts: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore; cell, 925-255-3585, [email protected] Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation; cell 510-306-0119, [email protected] Grace Morizawa, Asian Americans for Peace and Justice; cell, 510-289-1285, [email protected] WHAT: “Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change: Shine a Light, Stop the Hate, Lower the Heat,” annual rally and protest at the gates of Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory. This year, the...

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 Administration (NNSA). This legal action is prompted by the agencies’ failure to take the “hard look” required by the National Environmental Policy Act at their plans to more than quadruple the production of plutonium pits and split their production between the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. A plutonium pit is the heart and trigger of a nuclear bomb. Production...

For immediate release, July 12, 2021For more information, contact Marylia Kelley, ANA Board President, [email protected], 925.255.3589 Today, more than thirty nuclear watchdog organizations sent an urgent letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Janet Granholm and the White House, noting that she and the Biden administration face a critical decision that will have far-reaching environmental justice implications: the nomination of the Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management (EM). The letter cites the “inadequate cleanup, missed milestones, and broken cleanup promises” that have characterized EM in recent years and catalyzed today’s call for “big and bold...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 29, 2021   Media Contacts: Leslie Lenhardt, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, (843) 527-0078, [email protected] Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, in CA, (925) 255-3589, [email protected] Tom Clements, SRS Watch, in S. Carolina, (803) 834-3084, [email protected] Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, (505) 989-7342, c. (505) 470-3154, [email protected] John Pope, ReThink Media, (717) 386-9270, [email protected]   Federal agencies’ refusal to review cross-country expansion of plutonium pit production violates the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act, groups say. AIKEN, S.C. – Today, a coalition of community...

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability: A national network of organizations working to address nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup May 26, 2021 For use with DOE’s scheduled budget release on Friday May 28, 2021 Marylia Kelley, ANA Board President, Tri-Valley CAREs, cell (925) 255-3589, [email protected] Key contacts from ANA groups are listed below The White House is releasing its detailed Fiscal Year 2022 budget on Friday, May 28. A so-called “skinny budget” was released on April 9 that increased Department of Energy (DOE) funding to $46.1 billion, which reportedly includes major new investments in clean energy and climate change abatement. That said, historically roughly...