[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Rep. Tulsi Gabbard rebuts U.S. claim that Marshall Islands nuclear waste site is safe"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard rebuts U.S. claim that Marshall Islands nuclear waste site is safe

By SUSANNE RUST
Los Angeles Times
JULY 27, 2020

One of Hawaii’s high-profile politicians has dismissed a recent Department of Energy report concluding that a leaking U.S. nuclear waste repository in the Marshall Islands is safe for people there.

She called for the department to convene a more independent assessment of the waste site. 

“I think it’s time the Department of Energy relied on someone with fresh eyes to examine the situation,” said U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, one of Hawaii’s two Democratic House members, in a recent interview with The Times. 

Gabbard, who gained national attention by launching what some called a quixotic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been outspoken in Congress on behalf of the Marshall Islands, which the United States used as a testing site for scores of nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2020/07/28/nation-world-news/gabbard-dismisses-us-claim-that-marshall-islands-nuclear-waste-site-is-safe/
Or https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-07-27/tulsi-gabbard-rebuts-claim-marshall-islands-nuclear-site-proven-safe

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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