Jan. 19, 2022: BREDL is searching for an environmentally conscious fundraiser/development director to establish relationships with major donors, implement fundraising plans to help the organization receive necessary financial support. |
Mar. 07, 2022: Working in communities in the Southeast since 1984, we are well aware of radioactive waste initiatives going out to potential waste dump communities. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League was founded because of one such program, the DOE's Crystalline Repository Project and interim Monitored Retrievable Storage Site. We have continually opposed such radioactive waste dumps wherever they are proposed, including Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Likewise, we oppose so-called consolidated interim storage schemes. For decades, the transfer of liability from private hands to public entities has been the underlying factor driving nuclear waste site legislation. The assumption of this liability by the people via a government agency is a transfer of wealth from poor to rich. Therefore, we see no just application of informed consent to the imposition of a nuclear waste legacy lasting millennia. |
Jan. 22, 2022: BREDL requests President Biden to take action to have the U.S. adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to make the treaty a core element of his administration's upcoming Nuclear Posture Review. |
Nov. 12, 2021: Fundamentally, civil rights are guarantees by the government that it will treat people equally, with a principal focus on groups of people who have been denied the same rights and opportunities as others. Pollution of the air, water and soil has historically been a burden disproportionately placed on certain groups. This is unfair, unjust and unacceptable. |
Oct. 11, 2021: A review of ground and surface water monitoring reports submitted to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) by construction and demolition (CDLF) landfills shows that 1,4 dioxane has been found in ground and/or surface water at most sites. Of the over 50 facilities reviewed, over 40 show varying levels of 1,4 dioxane. It has also been detected in leachate from some of these facilities. Dioxane is an unregulated "forever" chemical and a likely carcinogen. |
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League staff and chapter members talk about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline fight. The Dominion Energy and Duke Energy ACP was approved in 2014. Had it been constructed, it would have traversed 550 miles from West Virginia through Virginia to North Carolina. The pipeline companies cancelled the project on July 5, 2020. |
This forum was held on Feb. 27, 2021.
Rev. Charles Utley, Forum Moderator |
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BREDL welcomes these new chapters
Coalition for a Clean Dan River Region (Pittsylvania Co., VA) - September 2021 |
Coal Ash Disposition
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RESOURCES |
Reports
Report on Air and Noise Pollution Reveals Fatal Flaws in Permit
for Proposed Buckingham Compressor Station |
Fact Sheets
Aug. 26, 2019: BREDL Fact Sheet on Versatile Test Reactors.
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Educational Tools
Salisbury Health Study |