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October 31, 2024 12:30 pmThe Horror of a nuclear “comeback” covered in the San Diego Union Tribune
On October 16, 2024, the San Diego Union Tribune featured an important story titled Is nuclear power making a comeback? The story, which has been published behind a subscribers-only paywall merits serious public scrutiny. Therefore, we have have summarized the key points of the story from a Public Watchdogs’ perspective. Is...
Read more →October 9, 2024 5:25 pmGasoline Settlement Claim Form and how you were jumped at the pump by a criminal enterprise
If you live in California and purchased gasoline between February 20, 2015 and November 10, 2015 in San Diego or Los Angeles Counties, (plus eight other counties)*, then you are probably eligible for a refund thanks to a legal action by the California Department of Justice. Some of you may have...
Read more →September 18, 2024 12:56 pmReport to members on Radiation leaks at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
UPDATE: On 09-25-24, we finally received a name-redacted copy of the radiation spill report filed by a BNSF railroad worker to the California Department of Health. Get the Department of Health report. Sept. 10, 2024 – HazMat Spill Report Get the official San Benardino Fire Department Hazardous Materials (HazMat) spill...
Read more →September 11, 2024 9:20 amFire Department HazMat report of the nuclear spill that occurred in the BNSF railroad yard in San Benardino on June 30, 2024, 8:02pm
UPDATED 09-25-24: California Public Records Act response with a letter from the NRC explaining the spill. See also a name-redacted copy of the official San Bernardino Fire Department report, including photos, on the recent spill of radioactive water from a rail shipment headed toward Clive Utah for disposal, and this report...
Read more →August 14, 2024 2:32 pmSupreme Court Decision weakens APA and the power of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Chevron doctrine is dead. On June 28, 2024, a new Supreme Court Decision put long overdue limits on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its power to ignore regulatory law on behalf of the big utilities it regulates. The Chevron doctrine asserted that if a federal law is ambiguous or...
Read more →August 8, 2024 5:24 pmLetter to the Editor, Orange County Register
The following is a letter to the Editors of the Orange County Register in response to an exceptionally well-researched report by columnist Terri Sforza. The letter was written by Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, In the original opinion, Sforza pointed out the link between our sky-high electric rate increases,...
Read more →July 25, 2024 3:28 pm“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
If a handful of the radioactive plutonium stored at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was atomized, spread evenly over the earth, and then inhaled, it would be enough to give every person on the planet cancer. Plutonium is one of the many eternally deadly radioactive metals that are present...
Read more →July 25, 2024 3:28 pmCritique of the Orange County Register and its pro-nuclear valence
The editorial opinion below is in response to a “twinkle-eyed fun and games” opinion by Teri Sforza in the Orange County Register. The Register’s opinion is peculiar because it downplays the lethal nature of nuclear waste as “boring.” The rebuttal below is by Ace Hoffman, author of the popular graphic-novel monograph, ...
Read more →May 2, 2024 1:22 pmIt is impossible to buy insurance against nuclear disasters
Today, Dr. Sarah Mosco published an important and widely distributed editorial opinion explaining that it is impossible for citizens to buy insurance against a nuclear disaster at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s beachfront nuclear waste dump. Get the opinion here. Background on Emergency Planning at San Onofre Public Watchdogs...
Read more →April 24, 2024 10:09 amThe AB 205 Shell Game: How the promises of AB 205 and AB 1999 were broken
AB 1999 was supposed to repeal the deeply flawed AB 205. It didn’t. As documented on our website for months, Public Watchdogs has followed the entire legislative process of AB 205 from beginning to its promised end when California Assemblywoman Jackie Irwin led a press conference committing to introduce new...
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