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Your California State Senate and Assembly Member contact info, District Maps, and Bios for Orange and San Diego Counties

May 23, 2025June 26, 2025 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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” takes place, your District’s elected official representation may change as well. Make sure you know…

Public Watchdogs’ interview on Nuclear Hotseat, and the dirty details behind AB305

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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) in California. If AB305 is successful, “small” nuclear reactors could be deployed in every California…

Assembly Bill 305 is all wrong for Californians who don’t want nuclear power expanded

April 19, 2025April 21, 2025 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 nuclear industry has influenced a legislative change that provides an “exemption” to that allows “Small…

Why Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) are a BIG Problem for California

April 19, 2025 Public Watchdogs 2 Comments

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 delivers a safe storage solution for radioactive nuclear waste, also known as “Spent Nuclear Fuel…

Radioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plants: A Cause for Concern

March 18, 2025March 19, 2025 Public Watchdogs 2 Comments

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 in secret. Ionizing radiation is a known carcinogen, and since cancer is becoming the number one…

Why nuclear waste is dangerous in a brief two minute video

March 17, 2025March 19, 2025 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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.

Whistleblower exposes Corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump

December 9, 2024December 9, 2024 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 coverage in Washington focused on a series of horrific taxpayer overcharges and safety lapses at…

SDG&E’s electric rates are the highest in the nation

December 4, 2024January 10, 2025 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 entire 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…

CHIEF BLACK FOX SPEAKS: Nuclear Waste and Native American Prophecy

December 4, 2024March 19, 2025 Public Watchdogs 3 Comments

Editor’s Note: Delbert Everett Pomani Jr, who we all knew as Black Fox, passed away at the age of 63 on May 17, 2024. He gave generously of his time and spirit when he was in San Diego helping us fight the construction of a high-level radioactive nuclear waste dump at San Onofre State Beach Park. That park, with its rolling and gentle surf, is located…

What is Holtec Smoking? $70 million lost to cannabis-loving employees?

November 26, 2024December 9, 2024 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 have embezzled money and duped its CEO, Krishna "Kris" Singh, into a $70 million loss from questionable investments in the cannabis industry. Top Holtec executives have admitted to investing in the dope...

The Horror of a nuclear “comeback”

October 31, 2024December 16, 2024 Public Watchdogs 1 Comment

If the world survives the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance,” it may well become known as humanity’s Second Dark Age, where a handful of greedy plutocrats decided to use primitive last-century nuclear technology to power an energy-gobbling AI infrastructure.

Gasoline Settlement Claim Form and how you were jumped at the pump by a criminal enterprise

October 9, 2024October 25, 2024 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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. …

Report to members on Radiation leaks at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

September 18, 2024September 28, 2024 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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….

Fire Department HazMat report of the nuclear spill that occurred in the BNSF railroad yard in San Benardino on June 30, 2024, 8:02pm

September 11, 2024September 28, 2024 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 to our members. The spill came from water left inside a 100-ton, 37-foot high steel…

Supreme Court Decision weakens APA and the power of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

August 14, 2024September 19, 2024 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 has an “administrative gap,” then the courts must defer to the regulatory agency’s interpretation. This…