On September 30, 2026, CAN, CCDSE,
and other anti-nuclear and safe energy groups protested outside the 2026 New England
Regional Nuclear Policy Summit at UMASS Lowell’s Meehan Student Center, rallying to keep
the guardrails of Chapter 503 in place and against governors' plans to revive and
expand nuclear energy.
Oct 1, 2026 Interview with Shel Horowitz about
the press conference by a coalition of environmental and safety groups opposing New
England governors' plans to build nuclear reactors. The governors held a
"summit" at UMASS Lowell on 9/30/26 to coordinate plans to build more nuclear
reactors. Their idea is that "advanced" reactors are safer. The groups all
united behind opposing Massachusetts governor desire to repeal the law that virtually
bans new nuclear.
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DO WE WANT NUCLEAR
CORPORATIONS DETERMINING OUR ENERGY FUTURE?
Did You Know Governor
Healey and other New England Governors Are Buying the Nuclear Kool-Aid?
A House
Bill that included the repeal of essential protections for Massachusetts and our
communities, is headed to the Senate.
Please contact your senators now and keep
contacting them! They need to understand that bringing nukes back to Massachusetts is
unacceptable. We have guardrails that shouldn't be undermined. There is nothing
stopping Healey from moving forward to “investigate nukes”. What she wants to do is
create a super highway for nuclear power in which the people don't have a voice
by repealing all the guardrails that were put in place in the Act of
1982.
Why won't our governor protect our communities?
Why won't our legislators protect our air and water—our environment—from
thermal and radioactive pollution? There’s big talk about “affordability.” So why
won't they protect us from nuclear power's rising costs? Why won't they
deal with the toxic radioactive waste at the reactor sites in the state before
embarking on an untested and experimental nuclear program?
Why are they willing
to make us nuclear guinea pigs again while we live with the failed policy of the
nuclear industry and the most toxic waste that was ever created?
Are
our legislators going to abandon us?
We’ve called our legislators.
Now with legislation before the Senate, we need to keep making our voices heard. Legislators need to hear from all of us to
protect our communities, our state from this failed
industry.
We’re keeping an eye out on the
status of Bill H.601 (An act relating to the
Clean Energy Standard).
The Scott Administration is behind
the Bill which would label nuclear power as clean, allow more nuclear waste to be
stored at Vermont Yankee, and eliminate the statutory requirement that the General
Assembly approve any new nuclear power plants in Vermont. Kerrick Johnson, the
Commissioner of the Department of Public Service, has called legislative approval
“redundant”.
It is important to reach out to your legislators and let them know
that H.601 should not be considered for passage.
Thank the MA
Legislators who Sponsored Amendment 31!
Amendment #31 to Bill
H.5151 Preserving Environmental Safety
Last week, MA
Representatives Scarsdale of Pepperell and Sabadosa of Northampton moved to amend Bill
H.5151 by striking out section 55; the section that would repeal the 1982 Act that
required a state referendum on nuclear power.
Bill H.5151 (An Act relative to energy affordability,
clean power, and economic competitiveness) was passed by the House of Representatives on
February 27, 2026.
Although we weren't able to strike the repeal of the 1982
Act, there were legislators who stood up for democracy! Please send a big thank you to
the 18 legislators who signed on to Amendment #31.
The Bill is now going to the
Senate and we are still working to stop Gov. Healey from undermining democracy and
bringing nukes back to New England. We want the repeal removed or not to come up in any
new Bill.
Thank you for all your calls—they had a powerful effect! We are
continuing and expanding our work, stay tuned.
Thank these MA
Representatives for Amendment #31
Lead Sponsors Margaret
Scarsdale Lindsay Sabadosa
Co-Sponsors: Homar Gómez Amy Mah
Sangiolo Michelle M. DuBois Estela A. Reyes Susannah M. Whipps Natalie M.
Higgins Mike Connolly John Francis Moran Christine P. Barber Vanna
Howard James C. Arena-DeRosa Tara T. Hong Hadley Luddy Christopher Richard
Flanagan Marjorie C. Decker Erika Uyterhoeven
I'm writing to thank you
for co-sponsoring Amendment 31 to H.5151 to remove the repeal of Section 503 of the Acts
of 1982. I appreciate your willingness to take this issue on, given how controversial it
was.
I support to remove the repeal from H5151 because:1) it is anti-democratic;
2) nuclear power and nuclear waste are a false and dangerous solution that will
undermine the expansion of real renewables in the state; and 3) nuclear power is a toxic
and the most expensive form of energy on the planet and will not only not help with
affordability.
Thank you again for trying to protect Massachusetts residents and
standing up for Democracy!
Support
Amendment #31
The latest Massachusetts Bill
(February 25, 2026) out of the House is Bill H.5151. This bill contains the repeal of the Act
from 1982 that gives people the right to determine their energy future in terms of
nuclear power (page 95, Section 55).
Rep. Scarsdale and Rep. Sabadosa
submitted Amendment 31 to strike the repeal of the 1982 Act. The House vote on Bill
H.5151 will be tomorrow, Thursday February 26!
We need everyone to call
their legislators to support Amendment 31 and keep the democracy alive in
Massachusetts. Ask your friends to do the same.
At a time when we
need more support for conservation, energy efficiency, and renewables, the House
legislators are cutting programs that help people cut costs and lead to greater energy
independence. Included in the bill is a plan to cut back the Mass Save program, as
well as cuts to solar. We need a renewable energy future, not false solutions from
major polluters.
Don't let the State take away our right to determine our
energy future.
Once you
contact your Rep, ask 5 friends to do the
same!
In 1982, more than 2/3 of Massachusetts voters passed an
important referendum that requires key safety standards before a new nuclear plant can
be built.
Read the 10 Reasons Why This Law
Must Continue to Protect Us: here.
The repeal of the 1982 Act is unacceptable. We are asking to honor the will of
your constituents and file/support an Amendment to remove Section 55 from Bill
H.5151.
REMOVE
SECTION 55!
Call to Action
Massachusetts
The Healey administration is
holding another dog and pony show that includes bringing nukes back to Massachusetts. To
do this the administration wants to repeal an act that requires a referendum that gives
the people the right to choose their energy future when it comes to nukes and nuclear
waste.
We can do better. Let the Healey
administration know, going backward is not an option!
Our legislators need to know that the
people of Massachusetts must determine their energy future if nuclear power should
return to the state. Our legislators need to hear that the repeal of this Act is
controversial and has to be tabled. This is the first step to defeating Healey’s push
for nukes.
Subject suggestion: Protect my right to decide my energy future!
(ensure your subject is unique so that emails do not get blocked)
Dear [inset Senator/Representative & their Last Name],
I am writing to urge you to block any repeal of the Acts of 1982, chapter 503, which
forbids developing new nuclear power in Massachusetts unless there is first a statewide
vote and a permanent repository for high-level radioactive waste. The repeal of the 1982
statute is in section 45 of bill H.4144, section 80 of bill H.4744, and section 34 of
bill H.5554—but may also be introduced in other bills in the future. Repealing this
citizen initiative that won by about 2/3 majority across the state would be
undemocratic, to say the least.
Please block any repeal of chapter 503 of the Acts of 1982.
If the governor and legislators believe nuclear power should return to Massachusetts,
they should make the case publicly and allow the people to decide. That is what the
principle of consent demands. This is an issue to be decided with robust public
discourse and voter consent. In order to foster public trust, there must be transparency
and inclusivity in determining our clean energy policy. The people of Massachusetts were
clear: determining the state’s nuclear future is our right. Please defend our ability to
make and uphold democratic decisions!
Sincerely,
[insert your name]
[insert your address to demonstrate you live in their district]
Call to Action
Vermont
In Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott, long a proponent of nuclear energy, threw his weight
behind a bill Tuesday that could usher in a comeback for nuclear in 2026.
The governor voiced support for ideas included in H.601, a bill introduced by House
Minority Leader Rep. Pattie McCoy, R-Poultney, earlier this month. That bill would alter
an existing state law—the Renewable Energy Standard—that requires all Vermont utilities
to reach 100% renewable energy like solar and wind by 2035. Under the bill, the law
would be renamed the Clean Energy Standard and would include nuclear power.
In addition, this bill could undo a 2006 law requiring public engagement around new
nuclear plants in Vermont. It could also make changes to nuclear waste storage at the
state’s former nuclear site, potentially allowing to take waste from other states. It
would take away the ability for the state to determine its energy future. How? Until now
the Vermont legislature determined whether Vermont would go nuclear. Scott wants to end
that by taking away legislators' power to act. This is unacceptable! These
legislators represent us.
Tell your legislator that we want the people to choose
their energy future. Call or email your Vermont legislator here and ask 5 friends
to do the same:
Defend
democracy—and tell your legislator that nuclear power is not clean
nor green!
Sample Email to
your VT Legislator:
Dear [inset Senator/Representative & their Last Name],
Regarding H.601, please do not support the effort to undermine the Renewable Energy
Standard and include nuclear power as clean. We have just spent more than half a billion
ratepayer dollars cleaning up the mess at Vermont Yankee and still have fifty eight
casks of high-level radioactive waste parked by the Connecticut River with nowhere to
go!
Additionally, H.601 includes the Governor’s plan to eliminate the requirement that the
General Assembly vote to approve any new nuclear plant siting in Vermont. Our
legislators must retain that power!
H.601 would also allow for the storage of nuclear waste from outside of Vermont. No
Thanks!
Sincerely,
[insert your name]
[insert your address to demonstrate you live in their district]
Protect MA
environmental efforts, oppose Rep. Cusack's energy bill H.4744 and remove
section 80!
Please join our letter campaign to tell Rep. Cusack that bill H.4744 is not the
answer to the climate crisis. Call your friends and family to the same call of action
and wake people up to the danger we’re in. Sign the letter campaign here. Thank
you for your help!
CORRECTION—THE BILL DID NOT PASS THE
HOUSE!
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REP AND ASK THEM TO VOTE
NO—
IF AND WHEN IT IS BROUGHT!
House Writes its own Energy
Bill H4744
Last week, House Rep. Cusack submitted Bill H4744 to replace Healey’s Energy Bill
H4144.
H4744, An Act relative to energy affordability, clean power, and
economic competitiveness—is now in the hands of the Ways and Means Committee.
Cusack’s justification for H4744 is "fiscal responsibility". While he raises
real issues, he wants to take a wrecking ball to MassSave and other important energy
saving programs that benefit all families and support lower energy use and cut carbon
use. This Bill rollbacks many gains made to address climate disruption, carbon
reduction. It also continues to support the resurrection of nuclear power, while
undermining the peoples’ voice to choose their energy future under section 80.
We are facing real problems regarding high energy bills and escalating costs of living.
But this Bill isn’t the answer. This appears to be an industry backed Bill to keep
failing polluting industries alive. This is unacceptable! This legislation must be
fought and fought hard. And section 80, just like section 45 of the Healey Bill, must be
removed.
This Bill is moving fast! Please contact the Committee and your
legislator to tell them that this Bill in its present form is unacceptable and that the
renewal of nuclear power is intolerable.
Thank your legislators who oppose this Bill. Call your friends and family to the same
call of action and wake people up to the danger we’re in.
Thank you!
Find your legislator here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator Find
Bill H4744 here. (H4744, Section 80, line 2041, located on
page 97 of 108 pages, tersely repeals the Anti-Nuclear Power and Waste Storage Law
that we need.)
Oppose Rep.
Cusack's Bill, rolling back MA environmental efforts!
Here is a fast and easy link to contact the House Ways and Means committee. There is
still time today and tomorrow to affect votes.
Click this link to send a letter to all 60 members of the Ways and Means Committee. You
can edit it with your comments.
For more pointers and information about Healey's poison pill, please view this
webinar, organized by Massachusetts Peace Action, co-sponsored by the Commonwealth
Coalition For Democracy and Safe Energy: Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes
Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them.
A Case Study in Radioactive Waste Management
The nuclear industry and its politician-apologists claim that nuclear power is clean.
Tell that to the communities that deal with its toxic legacy—radioactive waste!
All nuclear power stations create what the industry wants to call “low-level” waste.
What’s in it? How radioactive is it? How dangerous is it? Where does it go? What happens
when it gets there?
CAN is investigating the answers to these questions in collaboration with students and
faculty from Worcester Polytech and UMass-Amherst. Take a look at the “story map” here for
the first instalment of the story of low-level waste. And stay tuned for more!
The Enviro
Show
The
Ghost of Your Nuclear Past is lurking in various Northeastern States as we speak. Both
NY Gov. Hochul & MA Gov. Healey are for it (a bit of irony on the latter: we are
told Healey's parents allowed the Clamshell Alliance to camp on their land for a
Seabrook anti-nuke action). The good news is The Clamshell Alliance is still alive and
pushing back. Cliff McCarthy & Shel Horowitz of The Commonwealth Coalition for
Democracy & Safe Energy join us for the details.
Protect Vermont
from Climate Disaster
Dear CAN Supporters,
This Action Alert is very important and needs to be acted on ASAP by our supporters in
Vermont.
Some key Republicans in the Vermont Senate are threatening to dismantle key pieces of
legislation that protect Vermonters from climate disaster and help build a more
affordable future: the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Renewable Energy Standard. Among the
changes they are pursuing for the Renewable Energy Standard is to define Nuclear Power
as “clean.” We can’t let this happen!
Anti-climate, Pro-nuclear, Senators are pursuing every avenue they can think of to roll
back our climate laws—including a possible attempt to bypass the traditional committee
process to force a floor vote to take immediate action (likely on a Senate version of this climate rollback bill), as soon as THIS WEEK.
Before any voting begins on efforts to gut these laws, we urge you to contact your
Senator(s) and ask them to stand up for Vermonters and defend climate
action.
Please call or email your Senator(s) (or call the Sergeant at Arms to leave your
Senator(s) a message) as soon as possible this week between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM. Ask
them to vote against any rollbacks to the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Renewable
Energy Standard to secure a better future for all Vermonters. We have no time to
waste!
More info: If we allow the Renewable Energy Standard
to change as proposed in this bill, we’ll re-center nuclear energy as a strategy and,
functionally, would take a hacksaw to Vermont’s solar industry. If we give up on our
climate commitments we are putting an even greater burden on the next generation of
Vermonters when we should be working to make their futures brighter, safer, and
healthier.
We cannot roll back our commitment to climate action! We must ensure Vermont’s progress
on the clean energy transition remains strong, knowing that a fossil-friendly federal
administration makes state-level action more important than ever.
Please Contact
Your Legislator!
Take a moment to make a difference! Please contact your State senator and house
representative today to support bills that protect the public and environment.
We are trying to rescind the clean energy definition pushed by the Governor,
stating nuclear energy as clean energy. This is an assault to people who have suffered
at the hands of nuclear waste.
Sen. Comerford has introduced legislation to rescind the clean nuclear designation. It
is essential for Western MA people to contact their representatives to tell them to
support this legislation.
There are also other bills that have been introduced to deal with nuclear waste and the
communities in Massachusetts and its borders that are impacted by Yankee Rowe, Vermont
Yankee, Pilgrim, and Seabrook.
We can stop this! But only if we work together to push for real solutions and
real protections for the citizens of Massachusetts.
Find the summary of the legislations that’s been introduced and need legislator's
support here.
Corruption In The
Nuclear Industry Revealed Moccasin Tracks; Community Radio,
WZNC
Moccasin Tracks hosts talked with Chris Williams and Deb
Katz, who shared true stories of an industry that continues to cost rate payers
millions without solutions to waste and storage problems that are blatant examples of environmental
racism.
Climate Disruption—What is Massachusetts up
against? Are we Safe?
Not a driver? Ask us about upcoming
events where you can help us handing out flyers.
We are also looking to revamp our
website and are looking for a volunteer to help us with some of this work.
2023, Brattleboro Fourth of July Parade, Photo by
Ann Darling
We're Taking the Cask on the
Road.
If you’re interested in seeing our mock nuclear waste cask up close and having us
talk at your event about why "Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Climate
Change" please contact us at info@nukebusters.org.
The cask at
The Science Fair 2023, UMASS Amherst, Photo by Ilan
Bryant
Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security—The
Case for Robust Storage
This presentation was completed in 2006. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station
continued operating, and creating more high level nuclear waste (HLNW), for another 9
years—to 2014. Now, the spent fuel pool is being emptied of its inventory and the dry
casks receiving the spent fuel are just as vulnerable as depicted in this
presentation.
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant continues to operate 17 years after this presentation
was completed. Its HLNW inventory has more than doubled in size since then.
Seabrook's spent fuel pool inventory is also being transferred to dry cask
storage—arguably in just as vulnerable a configuration.
In association with C-10 Foundation, voiceover by Chris
Nord
Rep. Whipps
Withdrew Her Support for HD.3705! Thank You to all who contacted
her!
Please contact Rep. Whipps to
thank her for withdrawing her support for legislation that would undermine public
participation and democracy in the decommissioning of Pilgrim reactor. Please contact
her office to let her know that you appreciate her saying NO to Bill HD.3705.
REP. WHIPPS’ CONTACT
INFORMATION Telephone in Boston: (617) 722-2090 Email:
Susannah.Whipps@mahouse.gov
We are pleased to present a self-produced video explaining why atomic power is
completely unsuitable as a “bridge” energy source to a sustainable future. This video
features CAN organizers addressing five lies the industry promotes about nuclear power.
Artwork by Benjamin Katz, Age 8
Where do the Vermont Congressional Candidates
Stand on Vermont Yankee's Radioactive
Waste?
Vermont Yankee shuttered in 2014, but problems remain.
Over 40 years Vermont Yankee created a serious amount of atomic waste. Now, 1,600 tons
of the most highly radioactive waste sits in 58 casks out in the open near the banks
of the Connecticut River. Neither Vermont nor the federal government knows what to do
with it. Yet release of the radiation from these casks would leave our region
uninhabitable for decades. Vermont isn’t alone with this problem; it’s the same at all
reactor sites around the country. The
nuclear industry and politicians in Congress are pushing to send this waste to
“temporary” Consolidated Interim Storage (CIS) sites in working poor, Hispanic, and
Indigenous communities in the Southwest, an area that already carries a heavy burden
of nuclear contamination. The folks there don’t believe the move will be temporary and
don’t want the waste there. CIS is environmental racism, pure and
simple.
We all want the waste from Vermont Yankee gone, but we need to
think about where it would go. Do we want “our” waste to contaminate someone else’s
home?
Recently, the Vermont legislature passed The Environmental
Justice Act (Act 154) requiring State agencies to incorporate environmental justice
(EJ) into their work, rules, and procedures as they affect Vermonters. Act 154 says
that Vermont will no longer allow the Vermonters the most burdened by pollution—rural,
Indigenous, people of color—to be unjustly treated. It sets out a principled, ethical
standard for our state to follow. Does this standard of environmental
justice end at the border?! We need to let our House candidates know that plans
for Consolidated Interim Storage are unjust and contrary to Vermont’s
values.
ASK THE CANDIDATES
WHERE THEY STAND!
Are they aware of Consolidated Interim Storage plans? What do they think about them?
Will they stand for environmental justice in Congress?
Why isn’t there more government and industry investment in developing a permanent
waste solution?
With its waste problem, why is nuclear promoted as a “green” solution to climate
change?
MAKE SURE THEY KNOW
YOU’RE CONCERNED AND WATCHING! And let us know what you learn.
The Progressive candidate for the US House of Representatives from Vermont is: •
Barbara Nolfi
The independent candidate for the US House of Representatives from Vermont is: •
Liam Madden (https://rebirthdemocracy.com)
Nuclear Power—Myth, Lure, Danger and
Reality, a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Detour
with speakers M.V. Ramana (Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security),
Diane Turco (Executive Director of Cape Downwinders), Deb Katz (Executive Director of
Citizens Awareness Network), and David A. Kraft (Co-founder and current director of
Nuclear Energy Information Service), hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action.
Speak Out!
Tell Congress: No
Backdoor Authorization of Illegal Nuclear Waste Dumps
A provision (Section 308) of the pending FY 2022 Energy and Water appropriations bill
would authorize and direct the opening of supposedly temporary nuclear waste dumps.
The Section 308 provision would trigger a dangerous, unnecessary, decades-long, massive
high-level nuclear power waste transport campaign through most Congressional districts
in the continental US, including through densely populated cities and productive
farmland.
Congress must not undo protections in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act with an obscure
provision buried in the appropriations package. Shipping irradiated “spent” fuel and
storing it at supposedly interim sites is dangerous and violates consent-based siting,
environmental justice principles, and federal law.
Citizens Awareness Network is asking our supporters to call, write or email their
Senators ASAP and tell them to remove Section 308 from S 2605 today!
New England Delegation on Senate Appropriations Committee:
I am writing today because I am concerned about Section 308 of S.2605. Section 308
authorizes the DOE to create a pilot project for Centralized Interim Storage of spent
nuclear fuel. We should not be moving fuel until we have figured out where it is
ultimately going to be disposed of. Section 308 also allows for the use of the Nuclear
Waste Fund. The fund is ratepayer money to be used for disposal of the waste. We
should not allow the fund to be tapped for a parking lot dump with no permanent
disposal site as yet determined.
Similar proposals have been stricken from previous appropriation bills and this
proposal deserves the same fate. We need to get moving on a scientifically sound,
environmentally just solution. We don’t need to waste ratepayer dollars kicking the
can down the road.
Sincerely, [your name]
Time is of the essence! Please write today. Thank you so much!
Nuclear energy is NOT a climate solution
Greg Jaczko:
Funding Nuclear Energy Is A WASTE of
Government
Resources, The Industry Is DYING
Call your Reps
& Senators!
Say
No to Parking Lot Dumps & Bailouts
Citizens Awareness Network has been part of nationwide effort to create a national
coalition to bring grassroots pressure to the ongoing policy debate concerning
High-Level Radioactive Waste. This summer the National Radioactive Waste
Coalition will officially kick-off a national campaign to advocate for
several key policies.
Stop the Yucca Mountain Repository.
Prevent Centralized Interim Storage (CIS) of commercial irradiated fuel.
Implement Hardened Onsite Storage (HOSS) of commercial irradiated fuel at current
locations until a permanent facility is established.
Expensive and risky schemes to move spent fuel across the country to temporary parking
lot dumps in the Southwest are irresponsible and short sighted. The United States has
tens of thousands of tons of long lived waste that must be permanently sequestered from
the biotic world. The National Radioactive Waste Coalition will work from coast to coast
to see to it that policymakers hear from the citizenry and not just from an industry
that has not acted in good faith to deal with the waste problem it has created.
Please contact your Senators and your Representative and let them know that
Centralized Interim Storage is not an acceptable plan for dealing with power plant
waste.
Also, this summer, as Congress debates a massive infrastructure bill, the nuclear
industry has been calling for huge subsidies for old nuclear units around the country.
Congress should be working the to strengthen Clean Energy Standards instead of bailing
out dirty nuclear plants. The money for the bailouts would come from funds intended to
mitigate climate change through investments in renewable energy generation, energy
storage technology, and energy efficiency. In our view this is misguided and stupid.
Say NO to Parking Lot Dumps and Bailouts. Please contact your Senators and your
Representatives now.
Please let us know if you get a response from
your legislator: info@nukebusters.org
The Hazards of
Transporting VY Nuclear Waste
Guests Diane D’Arrigo of Nuclear Information and
Resource Service and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear talk with host Margaret Harrington
about the hazards of transporting Vermont Yankee nuclear waste by Northstar to proposed
centralized interim storage sites in Texas and New Mexico.
Click on the image
below to watch the video
NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND NUCLEAR WASTE Leona Morgan, Diane
D'Arrigo, and Deb Katz talk with host Margaret Harrington, Town Meeting Television,
CCTV Burlington, VT. (Click on the image above to watch the video)
Diane D’Arrigo, Leona Morgan, Deb Katz, Karen Hadden
presented in Amesbury near Seabrook
MA State House, September 21,
2018 For more news and pictures from the waste tour, go to our blog
State senate passes clean energy bill
Late on Friday afternoon, Rep. Frank Smizik, Chair of the Committee on Global Warming
and Climate Change and a long-time friend of the solar industry in Massachusetts, sent
out a request to his colleagues asking them to sign a letter calling for the House to
take quick action on several clean energy bills.
The House leadership needs to hear from you that there is strong grassroots support for
taking decisive action to support our solar industry and accelerate the
Commonwealth's transition to 100% renewable energy.
Please call—and also ask your friends and family to call—the State representatives to
ask them to sign on to Rep. Smizik's clean energy letter. Do it now. The main
number for the House is 617-722-2000. https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator We
can't afford to wait another two years for action on these crucial topics.
Thank you for your support, Nukebusters! With your help we can get our mock
high-level waste cask back on the road. By driving our mock cask throughout New England,
we’ll be educating and engaging people, and bring awareness of the Department of
Energy’s plan to transport thousands of shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel from New
England to temporary parking lot dumps in Nevada, Texas, and New Mexico. There is no
scientifically sound, environmentally just solution to the monstrous problem of nuclear
waste disposal.
No Escape from the Cape
Legislative Alert
HR 3053—the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 2017-2018 authored by Representative
Shimkus R-IL is an industry backed proposal to reopen the Yucca Mountain Repository for
high level radioactive waste containment. The bill also gives the green light to
establish so called parking lot dumps for “interim storage” of irradiated fuel rods. The
nuclear industry is proposing two parking lot dumps, one in West Texas and the other in
nearby New Mexico. CAN opposes the legislation and asks our members to call
their members of Congress.
Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada, was
defunded and the project halted in 2010. The site is prone to severe earthquakes and the
mountain is porous. Two of the most important site criteria for storing irradiated fuel
rods are keeping the canisters dry and stable geology. Yucca Mountain does not meet
these crucial requirements. We need to be using sound scientific methodology not
politics to solve our waste problem.
Parking lot dumps are a way to kick the can
down the road. To move thousands of shipments to Texas or New Mexico only to have to
move them again is dangerous. To say we will find a permanent repository in the future
is quite possibly disingenuous. Once parked, the waste may never move again.
Save Residential Solar Systems in Eversource territory
We need
100% renewable energy by 2050. One necessary step to get there is with distributed solar
PV generation on every viable rooftop, house and business. The Dept of Public Utilities
(DPU) and utilities think otherwise.  The DPU (in Docket 17-05) ruled that the
Eversource’s rate case can add Minimum Monthly Reliability Charges (MMRC) consisting of
1) Increased Fixed monthly charge, 2) Demand charges, and 3) Reduced net metering
credits (NMC) for all new residential solar installations starting in Jan 2019.
HD 4413—An Act Increasing Nuclear Power Plant Protections to a Fifty Mile
Radius
HD 4413-increasing nuclear power plant protections to a fifty mile radius.
This bill was formerly H. 2031 and passed the Joint Committee on Public Safety last
session (2015/16), the first time a bill was introduced for a 50 mile expansion. In
lieu of refiling this legislative year, Rep. Peake filed H. 2472 so Boston Downwinders
approached Rep. Balser to late-file this bill.
We are at a tipping point in insuring that our children have a safe and clean future.
Don’t let the Trump administration undermine all the good work that we have done.
Trump refuses to spend any money to support climate action, but he can’t wait to give
mountains of our hard-earned cash to dirty energy executives for more global warming and
nuclear waste. We need to stop him, and move toward 100% renewable energy
now.
Nuclear power produces highly radioactive nuclear waste with no place to go because,
guess what—there is no safe place to store it! Moving highly radioactive nuclear waste
is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS!
Or contact your U.S.
Representative directly, look up their phone number here.
In June, a group letter went to Shimkus and his Co-Chair OPPOSING THE BILL, signed by
49 organizations. The letter is a great source of talking points. You can also send the letter itself if you email your US
Representative.
Does your Rep have nuclear waste transport routes in his/her congressional district?
Find out here.
Stop the Nuclear Tax Bailout!
Last month, we told you about a bailout the nuclear industry is trying to push
through Congress. Despite a multi-billion-dollar price tag, they are still at it. And
if they can’t win a vote on the bill (HR 1551), they may resort to sneaky tricks, like
adding the tax breaks to the budget bill or another energy bill. If we can stop them,
it could stop new reactors and end the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” (what we call a
"Relapse"), once and for all.
. . . The world no longer needs to build nuclear power plants to avoid climate
change and certainly not to save money. If you have any doubt about that fact please
read the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017.
To the Village Square: From Montague, Massachusetts to Fukushima, Japan 1975-2014
A book by Lionel Delevingne, Photographer
"Along the way Lionel Delevingne has been the 'family photographer' of an amazing body
of people and actions that, against all odds, have created a way for the human race to survive. Our time
together has been joyous, demanding, pathbreaking, exciting, astounding and so much more. All captured on
film by the brilliant, loving lens of Lionel Delevingne, and in the beautiful words of Anna Gyorgy’s
introduction. 'To the Village Square' is the essential passport to four decades of peaceful
passion. Don’t miss it!"
—Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman
“To the Village Square is AMAZING and important and moving.”
—William C. Newman
(Director ACLU, Western Mass Regional Office.)
