Are we customers or “victims?” It’s Official: According to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SDG&E customers are paying the highest rates for electricity in the continental USA. These rates are even higher than “outlier” states such as Hawaii, and Alaska. A significant portion of the higher costs are due to a lax regulatory environment, increased expenditures on deferred-maintenance fire prevention and…
New Jersey Monitor, an independent news organization is reporting that Holtec, the company that made the nuclear waste storage canisters for the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has admitted that its employees embezzled money and duped its CEO into a $70 million loss from questionable investments in the cannabis industry. Holtec’s spokesperson, Patrick O’Brien, has stated that no public money from nuclear power decommissioning…
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 received a postcard notification. Submit a claim online here at: https://calg.calgaslitigation.com/ Now the bad news. …
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 report, with photos of the leaking containers, internal reports, and more. Get the document here….
This is what you need to know: If this radiation leak had not been discovered by a railroad worker, and witnessed by local Hazmat responders, we would probably never know about it. This is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report on the recent leak of radioactive water from the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in a San Bernardino railroad yard. The junked nuclear equipment…
There has been yet another radiation leak involving the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), and we need your attendance at a virtual meeting at 2pm Thursday to hold them accountable. Even if you remain silent your presence will put extreme pressure on Edison to tell the truth! (and as you know, “truth-telling” is not a part of Edison’s corporate culture). On Thursday, June 5…
WARNING: If you use Yahoo or AOL, you may never receive an email from Public Watchdogs because those emails are being censored. Yahoo is censoring emails from anti-nuclear groups such as Public Watchdogs, and also the emails of prominent citizens who support us, or have been actively organizing against the threat of nuclear war, nuclear disasters, and nuclear power. And because you are reading this, you…
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 in every pellet of the more than 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San…
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, Code Killers. The original essay can be found at the acehoffman.org website at this page. …
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 legislation to “roll back the Public Utility Commission’s proposed income graduated fixed fee.” AB 1999…
The price you pay for electricity is going up with a new government mandated “fixed fee” that goes straight into the pockets of California’s monopoly utilities.
SIGN THE PETITION Like something repulsive oozing from the bottom of your shoe, Assembly Bill 205 is a revolting mess that requires a yet unidentified California government agency to start tracking your personal income. After this agency gets possession of your private and personal tax information, a crack team of state-funded bureaucrats will decide how to charge the new fees on your electric bill as soon…
At 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had a meltdown. Public Watchdogs’ director of development, Nina Babiarz, was working in Pennsylvania as a reporter not far from the disaster. Forty years later, Babiarz addressed Southern California Edison’s public relations organ, the “Community Engagement Panel” on the decommissioning of the failed and leaking nuclear reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear…
According to Forbes, lighting up the Griswold house with Christmas lights would cost the average American about $4,000. Now, one of San Diego’s most trusted consumer advocates has told homeowners to throw out their holiday lights. According to Public Watchdogs’ director of development, Nina Babiarz, SDG&E’s new “peak use” charges could be shock if you use old fashioned incandescent light bulbs with your holiday lights. “Just…
July 9, 2021, Public Watchdogs Director of Development commented on Vehicle Miles travelled. Get The Video. Get The Full Story