To Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator: There’s Still Time to Respond to Our December 27, 2012 FOIA Request About Fukushima Monitoring! Please Do! We were alarmed to learn of the broken-down, volunteer-run ramshackle radiation monitoring system you oversaw in the days following the triple nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in March 2011. Despite its gross limitations and[…]
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Posted January 18, 2017 We honor Michelle Obama for her exceptional service and dedication as America ’s First Lady over the past eight years. She has been a potent inspiration for all the people of the world. Now we ask her to devote herself, as she returns to private life, to channeling her innate passion[…]
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The Indian Point nuclear plant will shut down by April 2021 under an agreement New York State reached this week with Entergy, the utility company that owns the facility in Westchester County, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. Under the terms of the agreement, one of the two nuclear reactors at[…]
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If you were a mother and formerly Connecticut’s Commissioner of Environmental Protection, would you want your lasting legacy in the closing days of the Obama Administration (in which you served as Administrator of the Environmental Agency) to be that you allowed levels of radioactivity in drinking water to be thousands of times more than allowed[…]
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posted: January 4, 2017 Energy and Technology Committee Environment Committee Legislative Office Building Capitol Avenue Hartford CT 06106 Re: Millstone Bailout Dear Honorable Members of the Energy and Technology Committee and the Environment Committee: I write on behalf of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, as its director, concerning current efforts by the owner and operator[…]
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For Release December 13, 2016 Contact: Nancy Burton NancyBurtonCT@aol.com The Connecticut Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision on the Millstone nuclear power station Clean Water Act permit, clearing the path for activists to nullify the permit on environmental grounds at an upcoming hearing. The Waterford CT nuclear power plant’s Units 2 and 3[…]
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For Release December 13, 2016 Contact: Nancy Burton NancyBurtonCT@aol.com The Connecticut Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision on the Millstone nuclear power station Clean Water Act permit, clearing the path for activists to nullify the permit on environmental grounds at an upcoming hearing. The Waterford CT nuclear power plant’s Units 2 and 3[…]
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EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is on track to approve radiation levels hundreds and thousands of times higher than currently allowed in our drinking water. The new standards will circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect nuclear polluters such as Dominion from Millstone radiation releases, not the public from radiation. McCarthy is on track to[…]
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Posted: November 9, 2016 Control room operators at Millstone Units 2 and 3 – the ultimate guardians of the nuclear reactors’ safety – routinely and consistently failed to review applicable standing orders between March and July of this year, according to an NRC inspection report released on November 4. The control room operators’ failure exposed[…]
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Posted 10/23/2016 The trouble-plagued Millstone Unit 2 – which went online in 1975, nearly 40 years ago – has asked the NRC to waive a mandatory inspection of its reactor vessel, due to take place once every ten years through the life of the reactor, by extending the upcoming inspection interval from 10 years to[…]
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