Recent News
CBG Releases Report Showing Radioactive Waste Was Sent to Recyclers and Landfills Not Licensed or Designed for Nuclear Waste
The Committee to Bridge the Gap has released a 114 page study by Daniel Hirsch and Ethan Miska disclosing that the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Department of Public Health have been approving–without environmental review or opportunity…
CBG’s Dan Hirsch Co-Authors Op-Ed On Nuclear Power
Please click here to read the piece published in the San Diego Union Tribune. In the piece, CBG’s Dan Hirsch concludes that two-thirds of a century after the first reactor waste was created, the United States still has no viable…
Life after San Onofre is green: Editorial
The LA Daily News concludes that the future of energy in California is green.
Do we need nuclear power plants? No: Toxic waste too dangerous
San Diego Union Tribune concludes that nuclear is simply not worth it.
We Win: San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Will Be Shut Down
Read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174714/we-win-san-onofre-nuclear-power-plant-will-be-shut-down#ixzz2Vlkev3nJ
San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant To Close
The NYTimes reports here. The LATimes reports here.
San Onofre Nuclear Plant To Close
In a stunning victory for the community and for activists, Southern California Edison announced today that it would permanently close all reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. The news comes after at least one NRC official expressed serious…
Nuclear site scrap metal could be headed to recyclers
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. “This involves risk. Radiation causes cancer,” said Daniel Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap. “The U.S. population should not be used as a disposal facility.”