Important Scientific Reports

LLNL report on Cleanup of Underground Fuel Tanks

This document summarizes the findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from an 18-month review of the regulatory framework and cleanup process currently applied to California’s leaking underground fuel tanks (LUFT). This review was conducted by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of California at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara at the request of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), Underground Storage Tank Program. The recommendations are made to improve and streamline the LUFT cleanup decision-making process.

Health and Environmental Assessment of MTBE

Report to the Calif. Governor and Legislature as sponsored by SB 521. (Delivered to the Governor’s office on November 12, 1998.) Prepared by U.C. Davis, this report includes a cost analysis of the controversial gasoline additive MTBE, as well as other oxegenates such as ethanol.

The Low-Down on High Octane Gasoline

Read the Federal trade Commission’s opinion on high vs. regular octane gasoline. Also interesting reading are the settlements the FTC won from oil companies claiming that high-octane gasoline is better for cars: AMOCO; EXXON (complaint); SUNOCO; and UNOCAL, Union Oil, Leo Burnett.

Coal-fired power plants produce 2,000 tons of radiation each year

This report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory details the danger of coal-fired power plants that produce far more radioactive contamination every year than nuclear power plants ever have.

Lots of foods and other things in the environment are naturally radioactive

Compare this with the little that can ever come from nuclear power plant waste material if it were carelessly thrown out on the ground.

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