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October 22, 2025 10:42 amVideo Recording of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Community Engagement Panel meeting on radioactive nuclear waste
Public Watchdogs has recorded and published the latest San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (CEP) meeting on the disposal of deadly high-level radioactive nuclear waste (they prefer to call it SNF or “spent nuclear fuel”) at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (“SONGS”). Background: SONGS was shut down after a defective...
Read more →October 19, 2025 10:48 amCopy of California Highway Patrol Report on getting hit by shrapnel during the Vance/Hegseth tour of Camp Pendleton
This is the original California Highway Patrol (CHP) report with details on how the Marines, under the direction of the Secretary of the War Department, Pete Hegseth, launched potentially deadly metal fragments at Highway Patrol vehicles and CHP officers by accident on October 18, 2025. Get the CHP report.
Read more →October 3, 2025 2:57 pmCash-Strapped Electricity Ratepayers offered bank loans to pay bills!
US Bank is now offering loans so that families can “finance” sky-high high electric bills It’s no secret that San Diego County residents are victimized by the highest utility rates in the nation. We pay as much as three times more than other states, which may be why almost one out...
Read more →May 23, 2025 10:10 amYour California State Senate and Assembly Member contact info, District Maps, and Bios for Orange and San Diego Counties
Updated: May 23, 2025 Finding a California politician’s phone number can be time consuming and frustrating. That’s why Public Watchdogs has done the research for you. Below is a complete list of San Diego and Orange County Senate and Assembly members with maps showing the boundaries of each district. When “Redistricting”...
Read more →May 5, 2025 12:47 pmPublic Watchdogs’ interview on Nuclear Hotseat, and the dirty details behind AB305
In this episode of Libbe HaLevy’s popular broadcast, Nuclear Hotseat, Libbe interviews Public Watchdogs’ co-founders, Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz about the extraordinary legislative treachery swirling around California Assembly Bill 305 (AB305), and how it is designed to pave the way for a massive rollout of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs)...
Read more →April 19, 2025 9:00 pmAssembly Bill 305 is all wrong for Californians who don’t want nuclear power expanded
Let your elected officials in the Assembly know that you are watching! Get our list of Talking Points on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) AB 305 is the very first item on the Committee on Natural Resources Hearing Agenda at 2:30pm Monday, April 21 (don’t be late to this virtual meeting!) California’s...
Read more →April 19, 2025 7:24 pmWhy Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) are a BIG Problem for California
Talking Points on SMRs and AB 305 Click HERE to get this document as a one-page pdf. Situation Analysis: After the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima disasters, no nuclear power plants have been built in the USA. In 1976, California also banned all new nuclear reactors until the federal government...
Read more →March 18, 2025 11:11 amRadioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plants: A Cause for Concern
By Roger Johnson, PhD, contributing editor All nuclear power plants regularly discharge radioactivity into the environment. They produce large quantities of radioactive materials and some of it gets discharged into the atmosphere, waterways, and surrounding land. The public needs to know more about these radioactive emissions, especially since they are conducted frequently and...
Read more →March 17, 2025 5:17 pmWhy nuclear waste is dangerous in a brief two minute video
This two minute video does the best job we’ve ever seen of explaining the long-term horror of nuclear waste. What do you think? Please comment. We would love to hear your opinion.
Read more →December 9, 2024 4:53 pmWhistleblower exposes Corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump
Documentation of corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump Thank goodness for the courage and sacrifice of Whistleblowers! Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, was talking with one of our Board members who resides in Washington state. Familiar with our situation at San Onofre, he described to her the daily news...
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