CBG News
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EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Defends Plan for Drinking Water
Read more from NBC Bay Area here…
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Environmental Protection Agency’s New Emergency Plan for Drinking Water Concerns Many
NBC News for the bay area reports on EPA’s latest efforts to allow higher levels of radiation in drinking water.
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New Plan May Allow Higher Radiation Levels in Drinking Water
NBC New York reports, here.
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Critics Question Plans For Nuclear Waste Storage At San Onofre
NBC San Diego reports, here.
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Does California shutdown mean the end of nuclear power? Not so fast.
Read the Christian Science Monitor report here.
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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon closure plan clears 1st hurdle
The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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PG&E to close Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant
PG&E announced that it will phase out by 2025 Diablo Canyon, the last operational nuclear power plant in California, and replace its power with renewables and efficiency. As part of...
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How much radiation is OK in an emergency?
CBG’s Dan Hirsch is quoted in this recent report by the Santa Fe New Mexican. Click here to read.
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Sandy Silver: Quake danger at Diablo Canyon
Sandy Silver discusses the danger an earthquake poses to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Article link here
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CBG’s Annual News Letter! 2015 Edition
In this edition we discuss the slow moving progress to clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. We also look at other big nuclear stories of 2015, including revelations that...
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CBG & Other Groups Oppose EPA’s Proposed Huge Increase in Permissible Radioactivity in Drinking Water
Read the group letter by clicking here. On December 5, 2015, OMB received for review from the US EPA proposed changes to its Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for responding to...
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ATSDR Rejects Petition to Repudiate SSFL Health Studies, Cleanup
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced on December 7th that it will reverse course on plans to get involved at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL). The announcement comes after months of public outcry over ATSDR’s prior decision to accept a petition that asked the agency to repudiate studies that showed potential health risks from SSFL and to weigh in against the site’s cleanup agreements. The petition was submitted by a former manager at SSFL and current consultant to the Department of Energy, which is one of the polluters at SSFL.
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CBG & Other Organizations Oppose Petitions to NRC to Relax Radiation Protections and Declare Radiation Good For You
Read the letters here: Comments to NRC Opposing Hormesis Petitions for Rulemaking NRDC & CBG Comments LNT Docket 19 Nov 2015
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Stand-down order at San Onofre questioned
The plant is closed. but radioactive material remains The San Diego Union Tribune Reports