Seacoast Anti-Pollution League

At A Glance

Location: 

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Primary Issue Area:

  • Climate Change & Energy

Active since:

1969

Grants Received In:

  • 2010
  • 2002
  • 1999
  • 1997

Core volunteers:

12

Community Size:

25,000

Our Purpose

To protect the health, safety and general well-being of the New Hampshire Seacoast community from nuclear pollution and other threats to the environment. The League shall alert and educate the community and relevant governmental agencies to those environmental threats.

Summary of Projects

Seacoast Anti-Pollution League received a NEGEF grant in the fall 2010 round for staffing, printing and postage to support the group's research, outreach and edcaction efforts. SAPL has been active since 1969 and the group has voiced questions and concerns about the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant thorughout the years.

SAPL received a grant in 2002 to organize a public forum to address the question, "What emergency responses are set up to protect the public along the Seacoast in the case of a nuclear incident?" SAPL received a grant in 1999 to update its organizational brochure describing the broader issue base which SAPL is now addressing. The materials will be used to solicit new members to support the group's work. SAPL received a grant in 1997 to help fund legal and educational campaign expenses associated with the effort to have the FNRC apply and enforce its "on-line maintenance" regulations at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.

To update its organizational brochure describing the broader issue base which SAPL is now addressing. The materials will be used to solicit new members to support the group's work.

To fund the legal and educational campaign expenses associated with SAL's efforts to have the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission apply and enforce its plant maintenance regulations.