Category: CBG News
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CBG’s 2023 Annual Newsletter & Dan Hirsch’s Year-End Letter
Friends, We are pleased to share our annual newsletter with you. It has been another year filled with daunting challenges – and yet, as you’ll read in Dan’s letter to...
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Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Safety Concerns: 2023 Year End Update
Governor Newsom recently pushed through a $1.4 billion loan to keep the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant operating despite safety concerns. This raises questions about the plant’s safety and potential...
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Joseph K. Lyou: Environmental justice for all (UCSC Magazine)
“While he was finishing up his dissertation in social psychology, Joe Lyou began interning at Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), a nuclear policy nonprofit focusing on nuclear safety, waste...
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Victory in Sacramento: CBG and other Groups Block Attempt to allow New Nuclear Power Plants in California
A few days ago, on April 10, 2023, CBG and other groups succeeded in defeating a bill in Sacramento that would have reversed California’s 1976 Nuclear Safeguards Act. The Act...
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A Risky Gamble at Diablo Canyon (CounterPunch)
“Environmental groups concerned about cost and safety issues at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo County on California’s central coast thought they’d scored a big win in...
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EPA to Hunters Point: Pound sand. No cleanup as promised for Superfund site (SF Examiner)
Dan Hirsch has published an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner on the EPA’s recent disclosure that it would not uphold the full cleanup at the Hunters Point Shipyard that...
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At Hunters Point Shipyard, ‘toxic bowl of soup’ cleanup may finally be in sight (SF Examiner)
“After years of bringing attention to the site’s environmental problems with little result, residents’ concerns may finally be taken seriously at City Hall. Notably, District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton proposed...
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Santa Susana activists, residents slam Regional Water Board’s agreement with Boeing: ‘Huge tragedy’ (LA Daily News)
“On Monday, Hirsch called the approval of the new memorandum ‘a tragedy.’ ‘When they voted on the MOU — which was horrible in its own way — it made effective...
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Did California give Boeing a pass on a major pollution cleanup? (LA Times)
Read Michael Hiltzik’s new column on the SSFL.
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UCLA Releases Oral History of Dan Hirsch & CBG
UCLA’s Oral History Program has just released its oral history of Dan Hirsch and Bridge the Gap. in a series of five interviews recorded over a five-year period stretching from...
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CBG’s Dan Hirsch Receives Earth Day Award From Ventura County
Click here to read the news release (pdf)
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Families affected by cancer want state officials to lead cleanup of Santa Susana
Read the KCRW story by clicking here. Listen to the audio below: Families affected by cancer want state officials to lead cleanup of Santa Susana