Infographic: How the California Public Utilities Commission operates
An infographic showing how the California Public Utilities Commission sets YOUR utility rates!
The California Coastal Commission’s betrayal of Californians
Editor’s Note: You may watch the October 6, video of the California Coastal Commission’s phony public hearing on San Onofre Here. The discussion of San Onofre begins at Minute 39. On October 6, 2015, the Coastal Commission deeply betrayed its own mission statement and the public by holding a secret, nonpublic vote to approve a a radioactive nuclear waste dump at San Onofre State Beach. The public…
Warning to Laid Off DMV AB60 Employees: You could be losing $400 dollars each month
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…
Cancer Deaths Kept Secret: Why the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is killing cancer studies
Does Living Near a Nuclear Power Plant Increase the Risk of Cancer? The NRC has terminated an important cancer study so we may never find out By Roger Johnson, PhD About 47 million Americans live within 31 miles of a nuclear power plant (NPP) and 112 million live within 50 miles. About 2.5 million live within 31 miles of San Onofre. The 31 mile…
Del Mar Sea Level Rise (SLR) Risk Assessment & Vulnerability Reports
All Del Mar Sea Level Rise (SLR) Reports, Photos, Maps, Press Release etc. can be found here. Announcement of Del Mar Coastal Hazards Vulnerability & Risk Assessment Project Completion: PRESS RELEASE-Del Mar Coastal Hazards, Vulnerability & Risk Assessment Del Mar Coastal Hazards-Vulnerability & Risk Assessment: Includes; Coastal Flood & Damage, Bluff Erosion, Rail Road Impact, Bluff Retreat Projections, Beach Erosion & Shoreline Change Maps, Bluff Erosion & Cliff…
King Tides Rule: San Onofre Parking Lot Ripped Out to Sea
In January, San Diego was hit hard with winter storms, funnel clouds, tornado warnings, King Tides and the sudden collapse of Sunset Cliffs. I just couldn’t help but wonder what had happened up at San Onofre State Beach Park, so one day on my way back from meetings in LA, I stopped to see for myself. Having lived in Laguna Beach and Dana Point, I was intimately familiar with the…
EPA Federal Radiation Guidelines claim 330,000 cancer deaths in San Diego as “acceptable”
The Federal government’s under the radar plan to increase allowable radiation in drinking water Public Watchdog filed comments to the EPA yesterday protesting the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to increase allowable radiation levels in drinking water.
Letter from Charles Langley
From the Desk of Charles Langley Thursday, July 21, 2016 Dear Friend, If you have dug this far into our Web site, then perhaps you are as troubled as I am. And you should be. That’s why I started Public Watchdogs: To expose and prevent fraud and government corruption. They’re killing people and putting your children at risk. Consider these examples: 2007 San Diego Wildfires: (Death…
Letter from Board Member Nina Babiarz
From the Desk of Nina Babiarz, Public Watchdogs Board Member July 20, 2016 In early 2015 I engaged Public Watchdogs’ Executive Director, Charles Langley to assist me in the development of a transportation program specific to revenue generated and to be spent from the California Cap & Trade Program. His research and findings on this elusive government regulated clean air credit ‘Wall Street’ type brokerage was…
KUSI NEWS VIDEO: The San Onofre bailout swindle and how Edison redlined its generators
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.
Times of San Diego: San Onofre Shutdown Due to ‘Redlined’ Steam Generators
The cause of a leak in 2012 that led to the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was steam generators being deliberately run too hot, too hard and too fast, according to a report released Tuesday by an independent watchdog organization.
San Diego Union Tribune: San Onofre reactor was pushed too far, leak resulted
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.
PRESS RELEASE: New Report Blasts Edison for unsafe Operation of Nuke Plant
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.
CBS NEWS: Cause of 2012 San Onofre nuclear plant leak revealed
View the original article CBS NEWS SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The cause of a leak in 2012 that led to the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was steam generators being deliberately run too hot, too hard and too fast, according to a report released Tuesday by an independent watchdog organization. The analysis asserts that operators of the plant in northern San Diego…