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We are all human, and that means we inevitably make mistakes - first BP in The Gulf, now Japan's nuclear crisis. A string of human errors has dogged the Fukushima Daiichi tragedy, from placing back-up generators in a low-lying area, to forgetting to refill fuel on vital pumps. Catastrophe is occurring, as is a cruel testimonial to the reality of 'nuclear safety', empty assurances of 'technological infallibility' having spawned a waking nightmare....

Probably in an effort to keep the problem of nuclear waste hidden from the public, these plants feature huge pools of water up in the higher level of the containment building above the reactors, which hold the spent fuel rods from the reactor.... Some of GE's plants in the US feature this same design... "....a spent-fuel pool fire could very well produce damage similar to or even greater than Chernobyl"....

The San Fransisco Chronicle reports that our west coast is safe from any fallout that may occur as the result of events thus far in Japan. But the citizens of Redding California, just a bit North, don't feel comfotable and supplies of Potassium Iodide have almost completely disappeared. Read why...

The unfolding disaster at Japans nuclear power plants, in the wake of catastrophic earthquake and tsunamis, all too graphically demonstrates why California's San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nukes should be shut down immediately....

Information below is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website. A tsunami alert was triggered by an 8.9 earthquake, epicenter off the shore of Sendai, Japan that occurred at 9:46pm PST (US) March 10. Japan's NHK is reporting dozens killed and scores more injured, as of this hour. A large oil refinery in Chiba Prefecture is aflame and most public transportation has been halted in Tokyo, where the earthquake shook buildings for several minutes. The quake was felt as ...

Critics point out that those same entities have been assuring the public for the past 15 years that they would come up with a "sustainable solution" to protect the Delta and double the numbers of Delta-dependent species and have failed miserably in the process....

Representative Devin Nunes (R-Visalia), a fanatical supporter of the war on salmon and salmon fishing communities by the Corporate Welfare Queens of San Joaquin Valley agribusiness, has inserted amendments into the Continuing Resolution Bill to defund restoration efforts for Sacramento and San Joaquin River salmon. The House of Representatives passed the bill with these amendments on February 19. Please act now to ensure that these salmon killing provisions are eliminated in the bill in t...

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Center (HANC) is an institution that has been doing recycling, later composting and other greening processes for the longest time ever. It is simply WRONG for the San Francisco Recreation and Park to try to evict HANC - after all these years for NO concrete reason. I have been associated with HANC directly and indirectly for many years - going, back to the time when I worked at the Presidio of San Francisco and encouraged - Recycling....

Turn off lights or draw window coverings to save natural resources, money and birds during migration....

The National Assn of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) has selected a once-contaminated scrap yard, now part of Evansville, Indiana's Pigeon Creek Greenway Passage, as winner of its prestigious 2011 National Environmental Excellence Award for Environmental Stewardship. The national law firm of Hunsucker Goodstein & Nelson PC, in insurance coverage and CERCLA lawsuits, secured funds to remediate the site, which was contaminated with lead and PCBs, so that it could be transformed into a ...