** TOP SECRET **
California Environmental Justice Program’s
Biggest Secret
Dr. Michael Hogan, CASI Founder

Moss Landing Disaster

On January 16, 2025, the California Central Coast fell from grace when a half-billion dollar “clean energy investment” self-immolated in Moss Landing. This epochal disaster happened because Vistra Corp’s Battery Electric Storage System (BESS) went into spontaneous “thermal runaway”, which is something that BESS plants do.

California Chernobyl in our own backyard?

The world’s largest BESS basically went into melt-down in the world’s worst place: Eden’s Gate, aka Moss Landing. This massive battery fire burned white hot for days, incinerating ten million pounds of lithium and heavy metals, with the toxic plume spreading across the Salinas Valley, as far east as Gilroy and as far north as Santa Cruz.

The disaster sure disappeared from the news quickly. But this was no simple little fire. At November’s breakfast meeting, you’ll hear about the health consequences at Ground Zero, the financial disaster (with our tax money), the biological disaster for people, animals, and soils of the Salinas Valley and beyond, the land use disaster unfolding, the impact to California’s energy grid, and the political disaster for green energy fans. You’ll also hear about the many BESS plants currently planned for California and the movement to stop them.

Back by popular demand, Dr. Michael Hogan returns to SVACR. Hogan is a Stanford trained eminent scientist across a range of disciplines, including physics and biology. Join us!