Surviving 2025
Photo credit: Conrad Gowell How Columbia Riverkeeper brought change to the hydrosystem, and what it meant to salmon. By: Miles Johnson, Legal Director In 2025, Columbia Riverkeeper’s advocacy caused the federal government to change dam operations to cool the Lower...2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement: 85 Seconds to Midnight
January 27, 2026 Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to global catastrophe. This marks a four-second shift from 2025, when the Clock stood at 89 seconds to midnight—an...85 Seconds to Midnight
In the run-up to the 2026 announcement, Bulletin experts noted the move of the clock to 89 seconds to midnight last year and said, “In every area, we have failed to take steps to reduce risks.” In the world of nuclear weapons (the clock considers nuclear weapons,...Protect Better: ORGANIZE AND PUSH BACK
Protect Better: YES to healthy babies, a healthy future. NO to increased radiation from nuclear sites JOIN US: Online INFO / ORGANIZING meetings: January — February 2026 The May 2025 White House Executive Order 14300 has told NRC to allow more radiation exposure of...
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,...
Nuclear Weapons
El último tratado de control de armas nucleares que queda entre Estados Unidos y Rusia, el Nuevo Tratado START, expirará ...
El último tratado de control de armas nucleares que queda entre Estados Unidos y Rusia, el Nuevo Tratado START, expirará ...
[Photo from We the Nuclear Free North newsletter, summer 2025] An environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Don’t ...
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future–Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Press Advisory Public Meeting ...
White House Executive Order & DOE set rule for “categorical exclusion” of new reactors from NEPA environmental impact statements On February 2, 2026, ...
Photo Credit: Alex Milan Tracy Nuclear “study” bill? No thanks! By Kelly Campbell, Policy Director In 2025, nuclear-boosters unleashed an unexpected onslaught of ...