Public Watchdogs has been examining issues involving DMV’s terminations of employees hired temporarily under AB60. If the year to date Gross Pay shown on your pay stub with 4/1/2016 issue date is greater than the Highest Quarter Earnings on your Notice of Unemployment Insurance Award, then you may lose $400 in monthly unemployment benefits, for a total of $2,500 over the next six months. DMV paid…
Public Watchdogs Executive Director Charles Langley explains how Southern California Edison ran its generators beyond the redline and made you pay for them after they broke.
Owners of the failed San Onofre nuclear power plant operated the reactor outside the allowable limits for pressure and temperature, causing the radiation leak that shut down the facility for good in 2012, a new report has found.
A new engineering analysis into what went wrong at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) asserts that plant operators intentionally “redlined” the system beyond its breaking point until it was overloaded and began to shake itself to pieces.
The “Warsaw Poland” notes are the smoking gun showing that the President of the California Public Utilities Commission, Michael Peevey, met secretly with Southern California Edison to craft a bailout of the failed nuclear reactors at San Onofre. The illicit deal was struck in a hotel room at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw Poland. Nearly every one of the nine “deal points” was later ratified by…
Below are recent photographs of casks that are being stored at San Onofre State Beach from the now-defunct SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station). If all goes according to plan, Southern California Edison, the owner of SONGS will store millions of pounds of high-level radioactive waste that’s deadly to humans for millions of years about 100 feet from the beach and a few inches above the water…
Why Public Watchdogs? The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is the regulatory agency that decides in their public hearings how much you pay for electricity. But in the last ten years the CPUC has become controlled by the big utilities they are supposed to regulate. This is why you pay some of the highest electric rates in the continental United States. Our goal, as consumer advocates,…
Radiation alarms began screaming early in the morning last Monday, April 18, at the U.S.A.’s largest military nuclear waste dump. The admission that there is what some are calling a “catastrophic leak” of radioactive waste came 11 months after the leak was first detected by employees (source). The Web site Common Dreams is reporting that a “catastrophic” radiation leak has occurred at the allegedly sturdy double-walled tanks at…
This alarming letter by Southern California Edison’s Dwight Nunn warns Mitsubishi that its plans for Replacement Steam Generators at San Onofre Nucleqar Generating Station may be fatally flawed due to Water Hammers.
On January 29, 2012, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) leaked ionizing radioactive steam into the environment. The owners of SONGS, Southern California Edison, notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission immediately, but waited four days for the radiation to disperse before it notified the media. As a result, we’ll never really know the full extent of the leak. Get the 2012-02-29-SONGS-Event-Report-ML12090A153. Get the ABC News Report…