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Remembering Ron Faust’s ‘life of justice and peace’
By Jane Stoever “We remember Ron’s trademark beret,” says Charles Carney. “He wore it in defiance of pastors who wanted him to remove it” … he opposed “vacuous traditions.”–Photo by Kriss Avery The Rev. Dr. Ron Faust, a former PeaceWorks KC Board member, died Nov. 20,...
Review of Martyrs to the Unspeakable by James Douglass
A new book details the tragedies of and the connections between the devastating assassinations of America’s foremost 1960s leaders. On December 8, 1999, in what should have been “the trial of the century,” a jury of 12 convicted Lloyd Jowers, alongside the United...
Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later
[U.S. Navy photo] Dr. Michael E. Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, has authored “Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later.” See his English language version here. An Andalusian...
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Hanford Site receives record $3.2 billion for cleanup efforts
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Hanford cleanup gets record $3.2 billion budget
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U.S. Senate passes funding bills for Hanford, PNNL
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$5B in federal funds for WA would stop layoffs at Tri-Cities’ biggest employer
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Hanford cleanup office given until mid-March to address DNFSB inquiry
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$5B in federal funds for WA would stop layoffs at Tri-Cities’ biggest employer
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Hanford cleanup office given until mid-March to address DNFSB inquiry
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Are Governments Playing Roulette with Nuclear Weapons?
In January 2026, Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a senior lecturer in chemistry at Columbia University, joined the Emory Pharma Speaker Series about the risks of nuclear weapons and the long-term impacts of radioactive...
Hanford 2025 Recap
Hanford Nuclear Site: 2025 in Review Columbia Riverkeeper’s very condensed timeline of the Hanford Nuclear Site in 2025 By: Simone Anter, Senior Attorney & Hanford Program Director This last year proved to be tumultuous and pivotal at the Hanford Nuclear Site,...
Science, Stars, and Songs
Standing Up to Fallout in Nevada By: Dan Serres, Advocacy Director In November 2025, Columbia Riverkeeper sent me as an emissary to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the fall meeting of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), which coincided with the International...
NNSA cancels public engagement efforts for increased plutonium use at LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Photo by Jude Strzemp) Jude Strzemp at Livermore Vine January 7, 2026 The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration recently retracted its intention to publish a draft environmental report for public...
NNSA cancels public engagement efforts for increased plutonium use at LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Photo by Jude Strzemp) Jude Strzemp at Livermore Vine January 7, 2026 The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration recently retracted its intention to publish a draft environmental report for public...
Killing the American Dream
The major media in the US are killing the American Dream … slowly, by a thousand cuts. A primary murder weapon is Reaganomics. This is visible in a plot of inequality of income1 in Figure 1, which shows the evolution of the shares of post-tax income of the top 3...
Celebrating Five Years of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CCNSUpdate011626mc.mp3 On Thursday, January 22th, the world and New Mexicans will mark five years since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons became international law. Nuclear weapons are now illegal....
Sacrifice environment for faster relicensing?
NRC to trade off Environmental Impact Statements for Environmental Assessments? The nuclear energy trade journal Inside NRC (published by Platts/S&P Global) reports that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “staff plans to narrow the focus of subsequent (60...
In Honor of MLK Jr. Day: A Call for Moral Leadership on Nuclear Weapons
Tri-Valley CAREs’ staff, board and members honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday, January 15. And, we celebrate his holiday on the third Monday of January each year. Equally important, we strive to carry on his work every day. Dr. King spoke...
DOGE cuts starve US defense against ICBMs
As reported in an exclusive by USA Today. Fort Greely, Alaska’s role in U.S. defenses — or lack thereof — against adversarial attack by Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), including nuclear-tipped ones, plays a central role in the blockbuster film “House of...
Fukushima Coverup, 15 Years On
An article by Arnie Gundersen, published at CounterPunch. Gundersen serves as Beyond Nuclear and our environmental coalition’s expert witness in opposition to Holtec’s unprecedented restart of the Palisades atomic reactor in Michigan.
Tri-Valley CAREs 2026 Youth Environmental Photo Contest
Before entering, make sure you meet all the requirements for the contest! All entries that meet the requirements are automatically entered into a pool of consideration for the prizes: The winner receives $750, the runner-up gets $250. Additionally, applicants from...
IUC intervention against Duane Arnold restart
Beyond Nuclear is striving to intervene at the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC), against NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor (pictured above). Duane Arnold is a more than 50-year old General Electric Mark 1 reactor — that is, a...
A Southwest Washington and Longview Win
A Win for Clean Air: Drax’s Polluting Wood Pellet Facility on Pause Good news alert! After sustained community advocacy, Drax Group has announced it is pausing plans to expand wood pellet production capacity. This decision places the proposed large-scale pellet...
Join Quaker vigil 1/27 near Immigration Court, KC MO
Join Quaker vigil 1/27 at Immigration Court, KC MO By Angelika Shafer Please join the Penn Valley Friends Meeting (Quakers) for a silent vigil Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 1pm. The Quakers will gather in Washington Square Park, across from the Immigration Court at 2345 Grand...
5 Years of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Changing Nuclear History
January 22, 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)! On January 22, 2021, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. The TPNW makes all facets of...
Republican-led U.S. Congress approved an annual defense policy bill
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2026-01/news/us-congress-ups-nuclear-arms-spending-tightens-oversight U.S. Congress Ups Nuclear Arms Spending, Tightens Oversight Arms Control Today January/February 2026 By Xiaodon Liang The Republican-led U.S. Congress approved an...
USA Today Presenta un Excelente Análisis y Mapas Visuales Sobre el Sistema de Defensa Nuclear de Estados Unidos.
Nuclear Weapons La serie de artículos publicada el 6 de enero en USA Today examina los costos —financieros y humanos— de modernizar los silos de misiles nucleares terrestres de Estados Unidos, de los cuales hay 450 ubicados en el Medio Oeste. El concepto de la...
New Mexico, Department of Energy at odds over cleanup halt at LANL waste site
By Alaina Mencinger amencinger@sfnewmexican.com | January 9, 2026 santafenewmexican.comThe U.S. Department of Energy has put cleanup of a hazardous waste disposal site at Los Alamos National Laboratory on hold, a decision that seems to have drawn the ire of the New...
Hanford cleanup office given until mid-March to address DNFSB inquiry
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Learn the hidden history of Hanford’s radiation impacts on the public
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Take Action: Cleaner cars save lives!
The Trump administration recently proposed an illogical rollback of fuel economy standards for new cars. These standards have been regulated by the federal government since 1975 and were most recently updated in 2024. These fuel economy standards have incentivized...
U.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT. TO BEYOND NUCLEAR RE: HOLTEC HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP LICENSE IN NEW MEXICO
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] (*See below the press release, for a note regarding consolidated interim storage facility transport risks, sent to reporters covering Holtec’s Palisades...
Crowd mourns deaths of Renee Good, others
By Ann Suellentrop Opening with prayers by two pastors, the KC MO rally Jan. 10 mourned the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, as well as the deaths of 33 others killed by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the last few years. Indivisible...
U.S. House passes bills funding Hanford cleanup, PNNL, dams
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‘Record funding’ for WA nuclear cleanup passes House. Wins for other projects
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Perma-Fix receives permit tripling liquid waste processing capacity
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House passes major funding package for Central Washington projects
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Seeking New Board Members
Photo Credit: Paloma Ayala Volunteer Applications Now Open for Columbia Riverkeeper’s Board of Directors By: Lauren Goldberg, Executive Director Columbia Riverkeeper’s board of directors oversees the organization’s goals and policies, finances, and public relations....
Hanford WTP filled 26 containers of glass during 2025
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No New Arms Race: Save New START Before it Expires on February 4th – Check Out the Advocacy Toolkit at Defuse Nuclear War.org
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CCNSUpdate010926mc.mp3 The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Wednesday, February 4th. Without this treaty, there will be nothing stopping a new, dangerous and...
USA Today Features Excellent Analysis and Visual Maps on the U.S. Nuclear Sponge
The series of articles from the January 6 USA Today examines the costs – financial and human – of upgrading U.S. land-based nuclear missile silos, of which there are 450 located in the Midwest. The concept of the nuclear sponge is that this leg of the nuclear triad,...
PSR condemns U.S. militarism at home and abroad
In this first week of the new year, we at Physicians for Social Responsibility are outraged at the escalating violence. Bombs and guns do not bring peace and justice, in Latin America or in U.S. cities, and we call for an end to this deadly new wave of U.S....
Victory: Army Corps Permit Required for Refinery’s Levee Impacts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact:Audrey Leonard, Columbia Riverkeeper: 541-399-4775 Victory: Army Corps Requires Permit for Refinery’s Levee Impacts NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc. needs a major federal permit for its proposed impacts to the Port Westward levee January...
Article highlights Tri-Valley CAREs’ concerns about Lab canceling public engagement efforts – Join our 1/15 meeting for more!
In a January 7th article, Livermore Vine reporter Jude Strzemp discussed the National Security Administration’s decision to retract its intention to publish a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for public comment for “Enhanced Plutonium...
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From Kevin Kamps to Everyone: Do AI data centers “justify” zombie reactors & SMR new builds?! January 8, 2025 Do AI data centers “justify” zombie reactors & SMR new builds?! 2025-12-15 19:06:41 From Kevin Kamps to Everyone: In response to Arnie’s mention of...
January 7: Sadako Sasaki and Her Enduring Message
Today, January 7, we honor the birthday of Sadako Sasaki, a hibakusha who died at 12 years old from leukemia caused by radiation exposure after the Hiroshima bombing. Sadako’s story lives on through the 1,000 paper cranes she folded in hope that her wish for peace...
Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Publi…
News from our friends at Tri-Valley CAREs | Dec 19, 2025 trivalleycares.orgFirst announced In January 2025, the NNSA proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization” at the Livermore Lab was to include a “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement”...
Time Zero: 05: The Lab (Part 01)
https://964f6bfd-c857-4667-8d59-615efbd0d7c4.libsyn.com/05-the-lab-part-01 ”When the Manhattan Project arrived on the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico, the land was not uninhabited. To establish the highly secretive Site Y, the United States military forcibly...