The South Carolina Advocacy Team requests the following actions. Senator Tim Scott’s birthday is September 19th. That is on a Sunday, so please call his office on Friday 9/17. Tell the staff that you are a constituent and sending birthday best wishes, and ask that he request that SJ Res 10 come to a vote. The number…
Category: Peace and Social Concerns, Columbia
Environmental Justice Program, Part II
Real EJ Work: CASE STUDIES– Pathways, Not Projects” Monday, September 13, 2021from 6:45 till 8:00 PM on ZOOM! Join us for enlightening presentations of what EJ work looks like with our expert panel in 3 different regions of the state doing the real work of empowering solutions from within the communities for the long haul.Panelists…
Westinghouse Draft Environmental Impact Statement
https://www.thestate.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article253253203.html A 10-year license for the South Carolina atomic factory near Columbia would bedangerous. A 40-year license renewal as described in The State’s Sunday front-page story would be senseless. (“Federal study supports new 40-year license for Columbia nuclear plant”) Things change. Forty years ago, the phrase, “Google it,” would have been meaningless, and no one…
Rooftop Solar
Rooftop Solar Saved from the Brink in South Carolina We WON a good-old-fashioned organizing victory against Dominion Energy South Carolina, a powerful investor owned utility (IOU) serving 750,000 electric customers from Columbia to Charleston. For all my fellow Sierrans fighting Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) who actively want to END rooftop solar in your state, take…
SCELP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 21, 2021 Contact information for impacted organizations listed belowGroups Notify Biden Admin of Impending Lawsuit Over Nuclear Bomb Core PlansMulti-state coalition says DOE’s plans to massively expand plutonium pit production violate a major environmental law and constitutes an environmental injustice. A coalition of public interest organizations notified the U.S. Department of Energy…
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons!
Please consider adding your name to the letter to President Biden from the Sierra Club Nuclear Weapons Grassroots Team. When you click on the link, you will see an opportunity to add your name and comments as well as other actions you can take.The Biden administration is undergoing a Nuclear Posture Review process so it…
Allyship and Environmental Justice
This is the December meeting of theMidlands Group of the South Carolina Sierra Club Monday, December 28, 20207:00 – 8:30 PM via Zoom The Past Calendar Year has challenged our communities, our work, and our ideas in several ways. Elections, pandemics, climate change, and movements for racial liberation, have stretched us to organize creatively, and see…
Westinghouse Decision
The Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility (CFFF) owned and operated by Westinghouse is located off Bluff Road in Hopkins, Lower Richland County, South Carolina. It manufactures nuclear fuel assemblies used in power plants. Leaks at the site have been an ongoing concern.Information about leaks and other radiological accidents are sent in technical documents difficult for ordinary South Carolinians to interpret. The…
Sounds of Silence
Brad Stocker, Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee Please join Columbia Friends and Brad Stocker for a Second Hour Program on December 20th at 11:30 to become more mindful of the way silence influences our care for the Earth. Do not break the silence unless you can improve upon it.” – William Ralph Inge. We often…
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
THE ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY TOP TEN LIST PRIORITIES FOR THE BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMMUNITIES. Nuclear weapons will demand the immediate attention of the next Administration and Congress. The last remaining effectivearms control treaty between the United States and Russia, the New START Treaty, expires on February 5, 2021. The two trillion dollar…