Coalition comment letter to DOE, re: "consent-based siting" for federal consolidated interim storage facilities -- open for organizational sign-ons
February 8, 2022
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Beyond Nuclear has prepared comments intended for organizations to sign onto in coalition, for submission by the current March 4, 2022 deadline to the U.S. Department of Energy, re: its Request for Information on "consent-based siting" for federal consolidated interim storage facilities.

See the coalition comments letter, here:

In PDF format;

In Pages word processing format.

To sign your organization onto these coalition comments, please email <kevin@beyondnuclear.org> by 12pm Noon Eastern Time on Friday, March 4th, at the absolute latest. Please email the following information:

Person's name; person's title, if any; organization's name; city; state.

Beyond Nuclear will compile the full list of organizational endorsers, and submit the coalition comments by DOE's current 5pm ET deadline on March 4th.

Please note that Beyond Nuclear is preparing a request to DOE to extend its deadline, but this is not guaranteed. If and when DOE extends the deadline, Beyond Nuclear will likewise extend the deadline for groups to sign onto the coalition comments. In any event, we will meet the deadline, with as many groups signed on as possible.

Thanks for considering signing your organization on! And please spread the word to your networks!

Update on February 16, 2022 by Registered Commenteradmin

The following 140 organizations signed onto these coalition comments (in alphabetical order by group name):

 

Nikos Pastos, Environmental Sociologist, Alaska's Big Village Network, Anchorage, AK
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Rose Gardner, Co-Founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, Eunice, NM
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Keith Gunter, Board Chair, Alliance To Halt Fermi-3, Livonia, MI
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LuAnne Kozma, President, Ban Michigan Fracking, Charlevoix, MI
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Kay Drey, President of the Board of Directors, and Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Takoma Park, MD
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Jenn Galler, Community Organizer, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Glendale Springs, NC
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Teresa Mills, Executive Director, Buckeye Environmental Network, Grove City, OH
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Diane Turco, Director, Cape Downwinders, Harwich, MA

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Dave McCoy, J.D., Citizen Action New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

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David Hughes, President, Citizen Power, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

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Kerwin Olson, Executive Director, Citizens Action Coalition, Indianapolis, IN

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Janet Greenwald, Coordinator, Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping (CARD), Dixon, NM

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Deb Katz, Executive Director, Citizens Awareness Network, Shelburne Falls, MA

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Jessie Pauline Collins, Co-Chair, Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two (CRAFT), Redford, MI
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Janet Tauro, NJ Board Chair, Clean Water Action New Jersey, Long Branch, NJ
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Laura Lynch, Campaign Coordinator, Coalition Against Nukes, New York, NY
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Michael J. Keegan, Chair, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Monroe, MI
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Joanne Hameister, Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes, Springville, NY
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Sharyn Cunningham, Co-Chair, Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste, Inc., Canon City, CO
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Mark D. Stansbery, Community Organizing Center, Columbus, OH
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Chris Borello, President, Concerned CItizens of Lake Twp./Uniontown IEL Superfund Site,
Stark County, Canton, OH
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Joni Arends, Co-founder and Executive Director, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Santa Fe, NM
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Paul Dressler, Co-Chair, Concerned Citizens Of Lacey Coalition, Lacey Township (Forked River), NJ
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Ernest Fuller, Vice Chairman, Concerned Citizens for SNEC Safety, Saxton, PA
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Nancy Burton, Director, Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, Redding, CT
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David Lambert, Member, The Conversation Google Group, Tacoma, WA

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Michel Lee, Esq., Chairman, Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy (CIECP), Scarsdale, NY

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Regina Minniss, Treasurer, Crabshell Alliance, Baltimore, MD

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Rev. Sharon Buttry, MSW, Volunteer Facilitator, Detroit Hamtramck Coalition for Advancing Healthy Environments, Detroit, MI

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Stephen Brittle, President, Don't Waste Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
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Alice Hirt, Co-Chair, Don't Waste Michigan, Holland, MI
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Amy Rosmarin, Executive Director, Earthkeeper Health Resources, Somers, NY
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Ken Gale, Eco-Logic, WBAI-FM, New York City, NY
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Mary Beth Brangan, Co-Director, Ecological Options Network, Bolinas, CA
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Cara L. Campbell, Chair, Ecology Party of Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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Mansur Johnson, President, The Einstein Academy, Tucson, AZ
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Charley Bowman, Chair, Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center, Buffalo, NY
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Linda Cataldo Modica, President, Erwin Citizens Awareness Network (ECAN), Jonesborough, TN
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Maggie Gundersen, Founder and President, Fairewinds Energy Education, Charleston, SC
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Wenonah Hauter, Founder and Executive Director, Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action, Washington, DC

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Jill M. Ryan, Executive Director, Freshwater Future, Petoskey, MI

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Kimberly Scott, Executive Director, Georgia WAND (Women's Action for New Directions) Education Fund, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
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Patricia Wood, Executive Director, Grassroots Environmental Education, Port Washington, NY
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Bradley Angel, Executive Director, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, San Francisco, CA and Moab, UT
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Mike Carberry, Director, Green State Solutions, Iowa City, IA
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Tom Carpenter, Executive Director, Hanford Challenge, Seattle, WA
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Lexi Tuddenham, Executive Director, HEAL Utah (Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah), Salt Lake City, UT
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Peggy Maze Johnson, Board Member, Heart of America NW, Seattle, WA
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Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Beacon, NY
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Marilyn Elie, Organizer, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), Westchester County, NY
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Manuel Pino, IEN Board President, Indigenous Environmental Network, Bemidji, MN
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Krystal Curley, Executive Director, Indigenous Lifeways, Gallup, NM  

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Susan Shapiro, Esq., LEAF of Hudson Valley, Goshen, NY

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Terry Miller, Chair, Lone Tree Council, Bay City, MI
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Jerry Rubin, Director, Los Angeles Alliance for Survival, Santa Monica, CA
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Mari Inoue, Co-Founding Member, Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World, New York, NY
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Peggy Case, President, Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, Mecosta, MI
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Bette Pierman, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Benton Harbor, MI
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Vic Macks, Steering Committee, Michigan Stop the Nuclear Bombs Campaign, St. Clair Shores, MI
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Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, Columbia, MO
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Cheryl Nenn, Riverkeeper, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Milwaukee, WI
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Susan Gordon, Coordinator, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE), Albuquerque, NM; MASE Core Groups: Bluewater Valley Downstream Alliance; Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining; Laguna-Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment; Post-71 Uranium Workers Committee; Red Water Pond Road Community Association
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Vina Colley, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, National Nuclear Workers for Justice (NNWJ), McDermott, OH

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Ian Zabarte, Secretary, Native Community Action Council, Las Vegas, NV

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Judy Treichel, Executive Director, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, Las Vegas, NV

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Sr. Joan Brown, osf, Executive Director, New Mexico and El Paso Region Interfaith Power and Light, Albuquerque, NM

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Executive Director George Crocker, EJ Director Lea Foushee, North American Water Office (NAWO), Lake Elmo, MN
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Ed and Patty Hughs, Members, Northeast New Mexicans United Against Nuclear Waste, Quay County, NM

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Ann Rogers, Chair, Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC), Traverse City, MI

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Alice Slater, UN NGO Rep., Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, New York, NY

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David Kraft, Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), Chicago, IL
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Mavis Belisle, Co-Chair, Nuclear Free World Committee/Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Dallas, TX

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Tim Judson, Executive Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Takoma Park, MD

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Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa, Coordinators, The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, AZ
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Jay Coghlan, Executive Director, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

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Joanne Sweeney, Board President, Nuclear Watch South, Atlanta, GA

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Kelly Lundeen & John LaForge, Co-Directors, Nukewatch, Luck, WI

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Ken Gale, Founder, NYC Safe Energy Campaign, New York City, NY

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Iris Hiskey Arno and Natalie Polvere, Co-Chairs, NYCD-16 Indivisible Environment Committee, New York, NY

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Kevin Collins, President, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Oak Ridge, TN

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Sally Jane Gellert, Member, Occupy Bergen County, Bergen County, NJ

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Patricia Marida, Coordinator, Ohio Nuclear Free Network, Toledo, OH

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Sheila Parks, EdD, Founder, On Behalf Of Planet Earth, Watertown, MA

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Sr. Marlene Perrotte, rsm, Partnership for Earth Spirituality, Albuquerque, NM

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Martha Spiess, Chair, Peace Action Maine, Portland, ME

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Pamela Richard, Peace Action Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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Lon Burnam, Convenor, The Peace Farm, Amarillo, TX
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Henry M. Stoever, Co-Chair, PeaceWorks, Kansas City, MO
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Jenny Lisak, Co-Director, Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water, DuBois, PA
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Rio Hito, PHASE (Promoting Health and Sustainable Energy), Nanuet, NY
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Ann Suellentrop, MS RN, Project Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Kansas City, Kansas City, KS
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Denise Duffield, Associate Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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Hannah Mortenson, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin, Madison, WI

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Janet Azarovitz, PLAC (Pilgrim Legislative Advisory Coalition), Cape Cod (Falmouth), MA

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Rev. Larry Bernard, O.F.M., Chaplain, Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Roswell, NM

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Faye More, Chair, Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada

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Vina Colley, President, Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security (PRESS), McDermott, OH

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Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Future, Tryon, NC and Washington, D.C.

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Adrian Shelley, Texas Director, Public Citizen, Austin, TX

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Robert K. Musil, Ph.D., M.P.H., President & CEO, Rachel Carson Council, Bethesda, MD

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Michael Welch, Volunteer. Redwood Alliance, Arcata, CA

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Giselle Herzfeld, Nuclear Guardianship Coordinator, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, Boulder, CO

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Nancy Vann, President, Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG), Peekskill, NY
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Lynn Sableman, Saint Louis Branch-Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, St. Louis, MO

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Robert M. Gould, MD, President, San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco, CA
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Jane Swanson, President, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, San Luis Obispo, CA
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Bart Ziegler, PhD, Community and Environmental Medicine, President, Sarah Lawrence Foundation, Del Mar, CA
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Elizabeth Padilla, Save Andrews County, Andrews, TX
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Tom Clements, Director, Savannah River Site Watch, Columbia, SC
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Doug Bogen, Executive Director, Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, Exeter, NH
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Dennis Nelson, Director, SERV (Support and Education for Radiation Victims), Kensington, MD
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Alison Eddy, Small Planet Institute , Acting Managing Director, Cambridge, MA
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Leigh Ford, Executive Director, Snake River Alliance, Boise, ID
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Maureen K. Headington, President, Stand Up/Save Lives Campaign, Burr Ridge, IL

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Susan Dancer, S.T.A.R.E. (South Texas Association for Responsible Energy), TX

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Anabel and David Dwyer, Members, Straits Area Concerned Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment, Mackinaw City, MI 

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Karen Hadden, Executive Director, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, Austin, TX

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Walter Horton, Chair, Nuclear Issues Committee, Tarrant Coalition for Environmental Awareness, Fort Worth, TX

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Eric Epstein, Chairman, Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., Harrisburg, PA
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Terry Lodge, Convenor, Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy, Toledo, OH
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Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment), Livermore, CA

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Tina Cordova, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Albuquerque, NM

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Tina Volz-Bongar, United For Clean Energy, Peekskill, NY

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Sarah Fields, Program Director, Uranium Watch, Monticello, UT

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Debra Stoleroff, Steering Committee Chair, Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance (VYDA), Montpelier, VT

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Kenneth Mayers, Major USMCR (Ret’d.), Veterans For Peace - National Board Member, Veterans For Peace - Santa Fe - Chapter Secretary, Santa Fe, NM

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Hollis Higgins, Secretary, Veterans for Peace (VFP) #035, Spokane, WA
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Mark Foreman, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 102, Milwaukee, WI
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Rita Mitchell, Co-Founder, Washtenaw 350, Ann Arbor, MI
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Buffalo Bruce, Staff Ecologist, Western Nebraska Resource Council, Chadron, NE
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John Whitney, Chair, Western New York Environmental Alliance, Buffalo, New York

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Jean Merrigan, Executive Director, Women's Energy Matters, Fairfax, CA
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Mary Laan, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

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Darien De Lu, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Des Moines, IA

Update on February 24, 2022 by Registered Commenteradmin

Individuals endorsing the coalition comments:

JL Angell, Rescue, CA

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James M. Cunningham, Shawnee Hills, OH

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Phoebe Thomas Sorgen, Co-Chair, BFUU Social Justice Committee, Berkeley, CA
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Pat Bulla, Austin, TX
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Marla Painter, Chair of the Board, Mountain View Community Action- Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sheila Baker, Petaluma, CA
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Dr. Alice M. Evans, Montpelier, VT
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Bridget Houston Hyde, Austin, TX
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Mary Jane Williams, Winter Springs, FL
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Gary Sachs, Brattleboro, VT
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Barbara Antonoplos, Atlanta, GA
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James Gibbs, NEIS, Chicago, IL
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Roberta Siegel, Chicago, IL
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Lucy Duff, Lanham, MD
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Dr. Joyce Follingstad, Ph.D., Portland, OR

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