Coalition comment letter to DOE, re: "consent-based siting" for federal consolidated interim storage facilities -- open for organizational sign-ons
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 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!
The following 140 organizations signed onto these coalition comments (in alphabetical order by group name):
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lynn Sableman, Saint Louis Branch-Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, St. Louis, MO
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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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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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John Whitney, Chair, Western New York Environmental Alliance, Buffalo, New York
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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
Individuals endorsing the coalition comments:
JL Angell, Rescue, CA
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James M. Cunningham, Shawnee Hills, OH
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Dr. Joyce Follingstad, Ph.D., Portland, OR