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Tuesday, February 10, 2009  
Francis Underhill Macy - improved Russia relations

By: Peter Fimrite
Published In: San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/09/BAPC15KD2Q.DTL

A memorial service will be held on Feb. 21 for Francis Underhill Macy, an environmental activist and expert on Russian culture who dedicated much of his life as a citizen diplomat working to improve relations with people in the former Soviet Union.

He and his wife, an activist, author and teacher of Buddhist theory, have been involved in many local environmental groups and causes, including the Nuclear Guardianship Project, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability and Tri-Valley CARES, a watchdog group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Thursday, December 19, 2008  
Livermore Lab Workers May Be Exposed To Toxic Dust

By: Anna Werner
Published In: CBS 5
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http://cbs5.com/local/llnl.toxic.dust.2.890949.html

Officials with the Lawrence Livermore Lab are looking into a potential hidden danger: hundreds of workers have been possibly exposed to a toxic metal dust.

Livermore Lab critic and activist Marylia Kelley said that's unacceptable. "Beryllium had been used in that building for more than 50 years and yet there was no presumption that there might have been contamination," Kelley said.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008  
Tri-Valley CAREs

By: Matthew W. Swyers
Published In: The Independent
http://www.independentnews.com/editorials.php?typeid=5

Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (Tri-Valley CAREs) is a local environmental, social justice, and peace group which monitors activity at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and advocates for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Livermore is one of two cities in the United States that is home to a national lab that creates nuclear weapons.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008  
Government gets sued

By: Tracy Press
Published In: Tracy Press
http://tracypress.com/content/view/16694/2268/

A local nuclear energy watchdog has filed suit against the government after being frustrated by recent public records requests.

A government watchdog has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration that alleges the government has long delayed responses to public records requests.

Tri-Valley CAREs charges the energy department and the nuclear security agency have failed to respond to six Freedom of Information Act requests made by the group in recent months seeking nuclear and biological research records.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008  
Lab Watchdog Group Files Lawsuit Claiming Violation of Freedom of Information Act

Published In: The Independent
http://www.independentnews.com/uploads/pdf/1_04122008_1228342918.pdf

Tri-Valley CAREs filed a lawsuit in federal district court in San Francisco against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The suit alleges numerous violations of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The lawsuit was filed Tuesday.

Tri-Valley CAREs' press release said that it is forced to pursue litigation after DOE and NNSA failed to respond to six, separate FOIA requests within the 20-day timeframe generally required under the statute. By forcing Tri-Valley CAREs to wait up to 18 months and longer with no substantive response, DOE and NNSA have not only violated the law but greatly diminished the value of the information sought, which often becomes less relevant over time.

"As a watchdog organization, Tri-Valley CAREs relies on open government laws like FOIA to do its work on behalf of the community," observed Robert Schwartz, the group's staff attorney. "Congress provided that right, but DOE and NNSA have taken it away through abuse and neglect. We're filing this case to protect the public's right to information about our government."

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Friday, November 21, 2008  
The NIF is for weapons, not clean energy

By: Adrian Jay
Published In: Valley Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/letters/ci_11034088

Recently, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State George Shultz visited Livermore Lab to extol the virtues of the as yet unfinished National Ignition Facility (NIF) as an alleged future source of carbon-free electricity.

While clean energy is essential, I believe it is important to bear in mind that the NIF's primary purpose is to train a new generation of nuclear weapons scientists and refine knowledge of the physics of nuclear weapons.

Even setting aside the question of whether a fission-fusion hybrid reactor could produce "clean" energy, it is hotly debated whether the NIF will even achieve its stated goals of thermonuclear ignition and gain, let alone be able to carry out the missions for which it was recently touted.

This press conference was a ruse of political myopia, in which "clean" energy was used as a rationale to sell the offensively expensive NIF to taxpayers and the incoming Obama administration.

Don't believe the hype; NIF isn't for energy, it's for nuclear weapons design and nuclear weapons are anything but "clean" or benign.

Adrian Jay
Livermore

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Sunday, November 2, 2008  
Feds plan for new era in nuclear deterrence

By: Suzanne Bohan
Published In: Tri-Valley Herald
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_10875822

Watchdog groups monitoring activities at the labs, however, say the plan reflects an agenda by the Bush administration, presented in its waning days, to support innovations in nuclear weaponry development, despite repeated congressional rejection of such an initiative.

While stripped of one of its most controversial elements - increased production of the plutonium cores critical to nuclear weapon denotation - the final plan would nonetheless create an infrastructure for more easily ramping up to produce these and other weapons components, said Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs in Livermore. She cited a potential new building at Livermore to bolster its ongoing high explosive research as an example.

"It is actually a provocative revitalization of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex," Kelley said of the plan. "It's an end-run around congressional intent by going ahead and creating the infrastructure for developing new nuclear weapons."

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Sunday, October 12, 2008  
Suit Challenges Legality of Proposed Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Plant

By: infoZine Staff
Published In: Kansas City infoZine News
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/31283/

Federal agencies charged with evading cleanup of existing site while
pursuing illegal "third-party" financing for new bomb plant

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - A coalition of environmental and peace
organizations asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. to set aside plans
for a new nuclear weapons plant and direct the agencies to prepare a new
environmental analysis of site-cleanup and relocation alternatives for the
existing Kansas City Plant (KCP).The lawsuit was filed in response to a
joint refusal by the General Services Administration (GSA) and the
Department o...

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008  
Activists Target Biodefense Labs On Environmental Grounds

By: Stuart Parker
Published In: Defense Environment Alert
http://www.insidedefense.com/

Community activists around the country are coalescing for the first time to oppose the expansion of biological defense laboratories on public health and environmental grounds, claiming the proliferation of such facilities will increase the risks that deadly diseases will escape into the environment. The military owns some of the biodefense labs.

The move comes at a time of heightened congressional interest in such expansions, with lawmakers in the recent omnibus spending bill calling for a high-level review of environmental impact analyses the Army has conducted for a lab expansion in M...

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Saturday, September 20, 2008  
Peaceworks Kansas City Calls to Strike Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Provision from Energy Bill

By: infoZine Staff
Published In: Kansas City infoZine News
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/30780/

Thirty science, nuclear security and environmental organizations urged the Senate to reject a provision in pending energy legislation that would fund the construction of a nuclear waste reprocessing facility.

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - In a joint letter to lawmakers, the organizations targeted a provision in the New Energy Reform Act of 2008 that would establish an Energy Department-estimated $1.5 billion research and development facility for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. They cited exorbitant costs, the threat of nuclear terror, technology flaws, and pollution risks as the main ...

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Sunday, August 17, 2008  
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor Calls for Complete Elimination of Nukes

By: Sharat G. Lin
Published In: Indy Bay
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/17/18527134.php

Antinuclear protesters gathered at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. They were joined by Reverend Nobuaki Hanaoka, who survived that devastating attack and called for the "complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth."

At 11:02 a.m. on Saturday, August 9, 2008, antinuclear protesters observed a moment of silence for the tens of thousands of civilians who were instantly killed when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan 63 years ago. The total number of deaths ...

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Friday, August 08, 2008  
Bombing survivor to speak at rally

By: The Record
Published In: The Stockton Record
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/A_NEWS/808080320/-1/A_NEWS

LIVERMORE - Retired United Methodist minister the Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, will deliver the keynote address Saturday at an anti-nuclear weapons and war rally outside the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory marking the 63rd anniversary of the bombing.

The event, sponsored by more than a dozen peace, environmental and social justice groups, will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of Vasco and Patterson Pass roads.

A moment of silence will be observed at 11:02 a.m., the time of the bomb's blast.

Hanaoka was an infant at the t...

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008  
Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration planned for Saturday

By: Sam Sutton
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/politics/ci_10120635

LIVERMORE - Hundreds are expected to gather Saturday outside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to support nuclear disarmament and mark the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.

Organizers said the protest has been put together by 17 groups, and will feature a "Nuclear Maze" exhibit depicting the detrimental effects that nuclear weapons production and testing have on the environment.

"This is an educational display to help people understand the dangers of nuclear weapons," said Jackie Cabasso, executive director of the Western States Legal Foundation in Oak...

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Thursday, July 17, 2008  
U.S. Plans to Shrink Nuclear Weapons Complex

By: William Mathews
Published In: Defense News
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3632613&c=AME&s=TOP

The U.S. Energy Department wants to modernize, downsize and economize the complex of laboratories and production plants that make up the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.

With the nuclear stockpile shrunk to a fraction of its Cold War size, the National Nuclear Security Administration says it wants to close about 600 of the thousands of buildings in its weapons complex.

By closing old, unneeded buildings and consolidating activities, the NNSA promises substantial savings on building maintenance and through reduced security requirements.

The nuclear weapons agency also wants to...

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Friday, July 04, 2008  
Act now on Site 300 permit

By: Adrian Jay
Published In: Tracy Press
http://tracypress.com/content/view/15131/2244/

A letter writer urges local residents to show up to a meeting against the Livermore lab's test site near Tracy...

Open detonation, burning and storage of explosives waste and explosives-contaminated debris should not be permitted near Tracy. We must act now to prevent Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from renewing its permit and expanding its perilous operations at Site 300, located on Corral Hollow Road.

Slime, slag and sludge are just a few of the toxic and hazardous-waste materials being blown up, burned and stored at the lab's 7,000-acre bomb-testing range, and the lab ...

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Friday, July 04, 2008  
Don't let Lawrence Livermore renew its permit

By: Adrian Jay
Published In: Stockton Record
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080704/A_OPINION02/807040315/-1/A_NEWS13

Letter to the Editor, penned by a Tri-Valley CAREs' supporter, about permit renewal for Site 300 in Tracy...

Open detonation, open burning, and storage of explosives waste and explosives-contaminated debris should not be permitted in Tracy. We must act now to prevent the Livermore lab from renewing its permit and expanding its perilous operations at Site 300, on Corral Hollow Road.

Slime, slag and sludge are just a few of the toxic and hazardous waste materials being blown up, burned and stored at the lab's 7,000-acre bomb testing range, and the lab has it in mind to increase the...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008  
Livermore lab fails terror test

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/
ci_9251321?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's protective force failed to deter a mock terrorist attack during a recent security drill, according to a Time magazine report online Monday.

During the simulated night-time attack several weeks ago, a team posing as terrorists was able to defeat the lab's defenses and get hold of their target of pretend nuclear material, according to unnamed sources.

"Failing an exercise like a mock terrorist attack highlights serious and unacceptable security shortcomings," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo. "I have insisted that the plutonium housed at Livermore b...

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Monday, May 12, 2008  
Security Flaws Exposed at Nuke Lab

By: Adam Zagorina
Published In: Times Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1739535,00.html

"The fissile material simply cannot be made safe and secure," says Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CARES, a Livermore nuclear weapons watchdog group. "We in the community, which has 81,000 people, want to get rid of the plutonium and highly enriched uranium as soon as possible."...

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Thursday, April 17, 2008  
Radioactive Report Card

By: Staff
Published In: Independent

Tri-Valley CAREs is in Washington, DC this week to release a "Radioactive
Report Card" grading U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons
policies during the George W. Bush years and laying out a new and different
agenda for the next administration to follow.

The group urged members of Congress and agency officials to press for an
end to nuclear weapons development and to recommend funding be used instead
for environmental cleanup and other programs. There will be a request to
stop funding the Reliable Replacement Warhead.

The Tri-Valley CAREs team will be ...

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Thursday, April 17, 2008  
Tickets Benefit Tri-Valley CAREs

By: Tri-Valley CAREs
Published In: Independent


Legendary singer-guitarist Bonnie Raitt, a nine-time Grammy winner and Rock
and Roll Hall of Famer, and her band will be performing at the Wente
Vineyards on September 2. Fourth and fifth row seats to benefit the
Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs.

The Gold and Silver Circle VIP tickets are located in the Orchestra Section
in Rows D and E. Gold Circle are $300 and include the show and a backstage
visit with Bonnie. Silver Circle are $200. The proceeds from these special
Gold and Silver seats will support Tri-Valley CAREs' efforts to stop
further research on nuclea...

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008  
Rule means sick workers get help faster

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_8780787?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com


Former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory workers who became ill from on-the-job exposure to radiation will now have their compensation claims fast-tracked through the Department of Labor.

"While this designation is certainly a step in the right direction, I'm concerned that many people are being left out," said Rob Schwartz, staff attorney for lab watchdog group Tri-Valley CAREs. "For instance, employees who worked in administrative areas will not be covered" by the new rule....

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Friday, March 28, 2008  
Lab releases new shipment of plutonium

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_8727077?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

Another shipment of weapons-grade nuclear material has made its way out of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the National Nuclear Security Administration reported Thursday.

ut critics contend that it isn't safe now and could all be safely removed two or three years earlier.

"The plutonium is vulnerable today to a catastrophic release in an earthquake or terrorist attack," said Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CAREs at a public hearing last week on the National Nuclear Security Administration's plan to revamp the nuclear weapons complex. "It can be taken out by 2010 safely."

The a...

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Thursday, March 20, 2008  
Plan to change nuclear labs draws skepticism

By: David Perlman
Published In: SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/20/BAD1VMRF5.DTL&hw=perlman&sn=001&sc=1000

Marylia Kelley, the organization's executive director, brought technical diagrams of weapons-related buildings at the Livermore lab that would be altered under the plan, and argued that the Nuclear Security agency is concealing its intention to retain there dangerous inventories of tritium - the crucial radioactive fuel for hydrogen bombs. She said the agency should move immediately to get rid of all its tritium, plutonium and uranium rather than wait. Those elements, she maintained, have already polluted the environment perilously throughout the town of Livermore.

Long-range plans to t...

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Thursday, March 20, 2008  
Proposed nuclear overhaul draws flak

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_8635915?nclick_check=1

Plans to overhaul the nuclear weapons complex were met by resistance from the public at a hearing in Livermore on Wednesday.

More than 50 people signed up to make oral comments after the presentation, the majority of which expressed their opposition to nuclear weapons.

Beverly King, Livermore, member of Tri-Valley CAREs

"I was 15 when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was a terrible shock. We should never do it again. We should have learned the lesson, never, never, never again."...

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008  
Nation's nuclear option

By: Danielle MacMurchy
Published In: Tracy Press
http://tracypress.com/content/view/13960/2242/

The Department of Energy could stop open-air bomb tests at Site 300 under a plan for the nation's nuclear weapons complex. But some activists who showed up at a meeting in Tracy were not impressed.

Groups like Western States Legal Foundation, Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility and Tri-Valley CAREs set up information booths and lined the room with photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb victims.

"There's no such thing as a safe nuclear weapon," said Jacqueline Cabasso, executive director of Western States, a nuclear weapons watchdog that says the plan would really ...

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008  
America's nuclear program gets a makeover

By: Laura Anthony
Published In: ABC 7
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/assignment_7&id=6026724

LIVERMORE, CA (KGO) -- This week, you'll have the chance to tell the Department of Energy what you think about a plan to re-make the nation's nuclear weapons facilities.

But those who oppose nuclear weapons of any kind say "complex transformation" is just another term for something else.

Marylia Kelley is executive director of "Tri-Valley Cares," the citizens' watchdog group that's full-time mission is to keep a close eye on Lawrence Livermore.

"In fact, complex transformation, or "bombplex" will revitalize the infrastructure of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex in order t...

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Monday, March 17, 2008  
A closer look at Lab nukes

By: Danielle MacMurchy
Published In: Tracy Press
http://tracypress.com/content/view/13948/2242/

The public is invited to speak out for or against a new nuclear weapons complex proposed by the National Nuclear Security Administration at a public hearing Tuesday.

Marylia Kelley with Tri-Valley C.A.R.E.s calls the new plan, dubbed "complex transformation," a thin disguise to build new nuclear weapons.

"Their plan is to rebuild and modernize about 25 million square feet of nuclear weapons factories across the country," said Kelley, who will host a table at Tuesday's meeting. "Do people want to see a nuclear weapons complex that's rebuilt and turns out new nuclear weapons, or do...

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Monday, March 17, 2008  
Changes Coming to Livermore Lab

By:
Published In: KCBS
http://www.kcbs.com/pages/1837084.php?

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KCBS) -- Department of Energy officials this week are coming to Alameda County to explain their plans to streamline the nation's nuclear-weapons program. The changes could mean staff reductions at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

But lab critics say the reliable replacement warhead program could lead to an arms race.

"We're going to be recommending that Livermore Lab could have a wonderful future as a green lab, as a laboratory dedicated to solving problems like global warming," said Marylia Kelley with the anti-nuclear proliferation group Tri-Valley CARE's.

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Saturday, March 15, 2008  
Public input sought on lab overhaul

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Contra Costa Times

The Department of Energy's plan to revamp nuclear weapons work at eight sites across the country including Lawrence Livermore Laboratory will be open for public comment at three hearings this week.

Marylia Kelley of the citizens group Tri-Valley CAREs in Livermore is pleased that the nuclear weapons complex will be smaller, but she is opposed to the Department of Energy's plan to update the stockpile with a new "reliable replacement warhead." Congress cut the funding for the warhead for 2008, but the 2009 budget request includes $40 million
for the program.

"The DOE's 'Comple...

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008  
Anti-nuke activists sue lab over testing

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Oakland Tribune
http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_8543534?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com

A nuclear watchdog group filed suit Monday to stop Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from operating a Biosafety Level 3 lab that conducts research on deadly pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and West Nile virus.

Livermore-based Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environments' lawsuit claims the Department of Energy began work at the lab without a full environmental impact statement that assesses the potential for a terrorist attack and without the required public comment process. ...

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008  
Group sues to halt biosafety laboratory

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_8531028?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

Livermore-based Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment's lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco claims that the Department of Energy began work at the lab without a full Environmental Impact Statement that assesses the potential for a terrorist attack and without the required public comment process.

"The DOE has refused to do an adequate analysis of the risks posed by this biowarfare research facility," said Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs. "And the risks are extreme."

In addition to being an attractive target for terrorist...

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008  
Group sues to halt Livermore microbe research

By: David Perlman
Published In: SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/11/BALOVHBPM.DTL&hw=perlman&sn=001&sc=1000

An anti-nuclear group filed suit in federal court in San Francisco on Monday, seeking to halt operations at a high-security Livermore laboratory building where scientists are storing and growing deadly microbes to develop new defenses against terrorist attacks.

The suit charges the facility with violating the National Environmental Policy Act because work began there without required environmental impact assessments being filed.

However, Marylea Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CARES, explained that the agreement means the Livermore facility has agreed to limit animal tes...

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Thursday, February 21, 2008  
Lab Short of Funds For Clean-up Effort

By:
Published In: The Independent

Full funding to clean-up contaminated groundwater and soil at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory was left out of this fiscal year's budget.
The fiscal year began Oct. 1.

Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, said she has been
working with local Congressional representatives in Washington. She said
she has gotten a positive response. However, funding can't be approved
without a reprogramming request from DOE. Along with the request, DOE would
have to provide the rational behind it. "It's a pretty straightforward
rational. I'm confident Con...

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008  
Bioterror Agent Mishandled at 254 Labs During Test

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: NTI
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2008_1_30.html#E3587241

"I'm convinced that this laboratory poses a serious threat to health and safety," said organization head Marylia Kelley, who said that Livermore scientists should study the pathogens at the Centers for Disease Control rather than their home base...

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008  
Testing for deadly pathogens to begin in Livermore

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: Oakland Tribune
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_8107870

A newly constructed laboratory equipped to handle deadly airborne pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and West Nile virus began operating Friday at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory....

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Sunday, January 20, 2008  
Livermore Laboratory Opens High-Security Research Facility

By: ANGELICA DONGALLO
Published In: Daily Cal
http://www.dailycal.org/article/100147/livermore_laboratory_opens_high-security_research_

Yet Tri-Valley CAREs, an anti-nuclear development community group based in Livermore, has scrutinized the department for what they said was a safety hazard for the lab's surrounding communities, including Berkeley.


"My biggest concern is the health and safety of the community surrounding Livermore Lab," said Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs. "In the event of an accident, leak, spill or terrorist attack, this facility puts our lives at risk."

...

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008  
Decision a win for sick lab workers

By: Betsy Mason
Published In: San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7920923?nclick_check=1

Former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory workers who became sick from exposure to radiation won a victory Tuesday when a petition to speed up compensation claims was recommended for approval.

The recommendation by an advisory board covers all workers who were at the lab, or at the lab's Site 300 near Tracy, for 250 or more days from 1950 to 1973 in any area that was monitored for radiation exposure or areas that should have been monitored.

"The board's recommendation is an important step toward sick workers from Livermore lab receiving the compensation they so justly deserve," said ...

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Sunday, January 06, 2008  
Congresswoman can take the heat

By: Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Published In: Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_7896721?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com&nclick_check=1

Tauscher also earns mixed reviews from one of the most vocal federal laboratory watchdog and anti-nuclear organizations, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Nuclear Environment. Tauscher has two national laboratories in her district, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia, which play a key research role in the U.S. nuclear weapons program.

The group's executive director, Marylia Kelley, says Tauscher gets high marks for her support of a resource center for federal employees sickened by exposure to radioactivity and toxic materials. She also says Tauscher helped eliminate funding for the developmen...

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