Environmental Policy
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Board stops California toxic waste regulators from weakening a hazardous waste rule (AP)
“California shouldn’t weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that currently goes to two specialized disposal sites in the Central Valley and hazardous facilities in...
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Boeing loses court case, must tighten regulation of PCBs at toxic Simi site (Ojai Valley News)
“Late last year, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge handed down a ruling in a lawsuit brought by Boeing against the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, resulting in...
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Radiation and Human Health – Dan Hirsch presentation at University of New Mexico
In March of this year, Dan Hirsch gave a presentation to a Climate Change and Human Health program at the University of New Mexico. His talk, titled “Radiation and Human...
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When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic (The Hill)
Linda Parks has an op-ed in The Hill this week about the risks of nuclear power being used to power the expansion of artificial intelligence. “Big tech needs to find more...
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California’s last nuclear plant is a risky, costly business (Los Angeles Times)
“The plant is central in an ongoing debate over California’s energy future, Noah Haggerty, a mass media fellow at The Times, explained this week. Key arguments center on the skyrocketing...
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Earthquake risks and rising costs: The price of operating California’s last nuclear plant (Los Angeles Times)
“Under two gargantuan domes of thick concrete and steel that rise along California’s rugged Central Coast, subatomic particles slam into uranium, triggering one of the most energetic reactions on Earth....
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What comes next for Diablo Canyon after a budget debacle and over $1B loaned to PG&E? (Sacramento Bee)
“Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom brokered an agreement to help Pacific Gas & Electric Co. preserve the life of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the state’s Central Coast,...
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Non-proliferation experts urge US to not support nuclear fuel project (Reuters)
“Nuclear proliferation experts who served under four U.S. presidents told President Joe Biden and his administration on Thursday that a pilot project to recycle spent nuclear fuel would violate U.S....
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The Good That Came Out Of Suing the State Over Allowing Illegal Disposal Of Radioactive Waste From CA’s Most Notorious Cold War Lab
Consumer Watchdog’s Liza Tucker has written an epitaph of our joint lawsuit against the California Departments of Toxic Substances Control and Public Health for their failure to prevent Boeing’s radioactive...
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Public Interest Groups Take On Newsom Administration Over Backtracking On Cleanup Of Radioactivity At Santa Susana Site
“In an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Sacramento to be heard on Monday, the Newsom Administration will be challenged over positions that breach a longstanding agreement to require...
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CBG Critiques of CalEPA Deals with Boeing to Gut Santa Susana Cleanup
On August 11, 2022, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board held a special hearing in which, despite hours of community testimony overwhelmingly opposing it, the Board approved the...
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Thirteen Organizations Oppose John D. Graham’s Membership on National Academies’ Low-Dose Radiation Committee
On July 22, a comment letter signed by thirteen environmental and public interest groups was sent to the National Academies’ Committee on Developing a Long-Term Strategy for Low-Dose Radiation Research...
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VICTORY—Nuclear Regulatory Commission Withdraws Widely Condemned Proposal to Deregulate Most Radioactive Waste
CBG, working closely with NRDC, PEER, NIRS, and PSR helped lead opposition to an extraordinary plan by NRC to allow virtually all radioactive waste from nuclear plants, other than spent...
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Dan Hirsch interview with Physicians for Social Responsibility
Interview conducted by David Bezanson, MD, of Physicians for Social Responsibility Read the interview by clicking here
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EPA blasts Navy for plan to retest soil at former SF shipyard
Click here to read the SF Chronicle’s report. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has excoriated the Navy’s plan to retest part of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard for radioactivity...