Tri-Valley CAREs works to strengthen global security by stopping the development of new nuclear weapons in the US and by promoting the elimination of nuclear weapons globally. Tri-Valley CAREs monitors nuclear weapons and environmental clean-up activities throughout the US nuclear weapons complex, with a special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Lab and surrounding communities.
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Date: January 16, 2012
By: Derek Sands
Published in: Platts Inside Energy
www.trivalleycares.org/new/PLATTsArticle.pdf
Date: January 19, 2012
Published in: The Oakland Tribune
By: Stephan Kelly
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreviewonline/letterstotheeditor/ci_19768934
U.S. needs to reduce its nuclear arsenal
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I thought about the powerful things the civil rights leader had to say about war and this nation's priorities.
In 1967, he said, "The best brains in the highly developed nations of the world are devoted to military technology. The fact that most of the time human beings put the truth about the nature and risks of nuclear war out of their minds because it is too painful and therefore not 'acceptable,' does not alter the nature and risks of such war."
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012
By Fiona Smith Daily Journal Staff Writer
Published in: The Daily Journal
http://www.trivalleycares.org/new/Daily Journal Article.pdf
A community group concerned over the operation of a bioweapon research facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory sought to convince the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that the high security facility has failed to adequately look at the risks posed by a terrorist attack.
Nonprofit Tri-Valley Cares is fighting the Energy Department, claiming it glossed over the threat of deadly pathogens such as anthrax and plague escaping from the lab in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act or NEPA.
Date: January 12, 2012
Published in: The San Francisco Chronicle
By: Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2...
An opponent of the new biological weapons research center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory told a federal appeals court Wednesday that government officials approved the project without fully considering the consequences of a possible terrorist attack or disclosing the details of a past release of anthrax.
Research at the center is intended to help the government detect biological pathogens such as anthrax, plague, brucellosis and Q fever. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the facility in 2006, saying the Department of Energy's environmental assessment had failed to study the possibility that terrorists could cause a release of deadly organisms.
The department took another look and found no significant danger from terrorism, a conclusion accepted by a federal judge who allowed the center to open in February 2009. But a lawyer for opponents argued Wednesday that the new review was perfunctory and violated the court's 2006 order.
Date: January 12, 2012
Published in: Bay Area Newsgroup Papers (Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, San Jose Mercury News)
By: Suzanne Bohan
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_19721957?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com
A Lawrence Livermore Laboratory watchdog group argued in a San Francisco federal court Wednesday for a halt to biological weapons research until its danger to residents is more thoroughly examined.
Inside a high-security building at the national lab, researchers are working with microbes such as anthrax, plague, Q fever and other deadly pathogens to better understand how they infect people and to develop technologies for detecting them.
"And this will all be done a half a mile away from densely populated areas in Livermore," said Scott Yundt, a lawyer with Tri-Valley CAREs.
Yundt argued strenuously before the three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that risks to the environment and human health were not adequately analyzed before the facility opened in 2008.