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

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Using the California Public Records Act, Public Watchdogs has acquired a name-redacted copy of the official San Bernardino Fire Department report on the recent spill of radioactive water from a rail shipment headed toward Clive Utah for disposal. The spill came from water left inside a 100-ton, 37-foot high steel pressurizer. The pressurizer was used to maintain the hydraulic pressure of extremely radioactive water at the…

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

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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…

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Letter to the Editor, Orange County Register

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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, and how utility profits, are directly connected to the utilities’ questionable “costs.”  In this response,…

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Corporate Censorship: Yahoo and AOL are blocking the free speech of nuclear activists

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WARNING: If you use Yahoo or AOL, you will 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…

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“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant

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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…

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Critique of the Orange County Register and its pro-nuclear valence

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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. …

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It is impossible to buy insurance against nuclear disasters

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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 exposed the lax safety regulation at San Onofre in its widely acclaimed report Radiological Regulatory…

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The AB 205 Shell Game: How the promises of AB 205 and AB 1999 were broken

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  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…

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Why the new California AB 205 income-based surcharge is a horrific invasion of your privacy, and how you can protest it.

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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…

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Tempers flare on 40th Anniversary of TMI meltdown at the San Onofre Nuclear “Community Engagement Panel”

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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…

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NEW LAWSUIT EXPOSES SANDAG’S INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION

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SANDAG, the San Diego Area Association of Governments has been sued by its former finance officer        Lauren Warrem This story is a summary of the original story published on the front page of the  San Diego Union Tribune . It was written by investigative reporter, Jeff McDonald, on December 3, 2023. Get the original story here.   SANDAG, which has also been called San…

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