Public Watchdogs is dedicated to telling the public the hidden truth about the deadly nuclear waste at San Onofre (see video). Public Watchdogs has its eye on the ball and its ear to the ground sniffing out fraud and unlawful corruption at the agencies that regulate utilities in California. Public Watchdogs is incorporated as a tax-deductible non-profit in the State of California and is dedicated to the premise that "The Public has a right to know" how its money is being spent.
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Causes: Consumer Protection
Mission: Public watchdogs is formed to protect the public from government, regulatory, and oversight agencies such as the california public utilities commission. This work will be limited to protecting the public from collusion between the public agencies and private entities the public agencies purport to regulate, and to protect the public and consumers from abuses in all government, non-government, regulatory and oversight entities including but not limited to the cpuc. Its work involves advocating on behalf of the public in public proceedings, in the courts, in the media and all other forums including informing the public with unbiased reports on regulatory issues as well as corporate and government abuse; and general consumer rights and consumer protection issues that affect consumers' household budgets, finances, emergency planning, safety, and health. Public watchdogs may represent consumers, customers, or subscribers of any electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, or water corporation tha
Programs: A) filed federal lawsuit on 11-15-17 against department of energy (doe) for declaratory and injunctive relief to force southern california edison to remove nuclear waste from its beachfront nuclear waste dump located 108 feet from the beach at san onofre state beach park. B) made more than 100 formal non-partisan one hour presentations to civic groups, fraternal groups, university students, political clubs, churches, and environmental nonprofits. Most of these educational presentations were presented by three public watchdogs' advocates. C) authored radiological regulatory failure: this 450-page report exposed the failure of edison's emergency planning program for the san onofre nuclear generating station (songs). Written for regulators and nuclear policy makers, the report gives a chronological breakdown of the failure of the nuclear regulatory commission and the state of california to protect the public from a full-scale nuclear disaster at the newly constructed beachfront san onofre nuclear waste dump. The report was widely covered in mainstream media. D) direct mailed a personal letter to every public utilities commission employee. We sent more than 1,000 hand-signed and hand-addressed personal letters out to the california public utilities commission (cpuc) with a personal invitation to blow the whistle on internal corruption. This effort received significant media coverage. F) added pam patterson, geologist robert pope, and retired navy jag william weigel to public watchdogs' board of directors. An attorney and the mayor of san juan capistrano, pam patterson made headlines when she was removed from southern california edison's community engagement panel on san onofre for being a vocal critic of the nuclear decommissioning process. G) published 18 educational and network news videos featuring public watchdogs on san onofre at our web site's you tube channel. H) published a comprehensive report on geological risk at san onofre, by our geologist, robert pope, and executive director. The report disputed assertions by edison's geologists that storing a nuclear waste dump near an earthquake fault line is "safe. " i) published three right to know newsletters, and numerous blog posts at the public watchdogs web site j) published the criminal search warrant on the home of michael peevey. This confidential department of justice document outlines a criminal conspiracy at the highest levels of california's largest bureaucracy, the california public utilities commission.