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Nevada prepares for nuclear waste battle – Environment- msnbc.com

Nevada prepares for nuclear waste battle
msnbc Associated Press Dec. 19, 2003 Yucca Mountain lawsuits will be heard in court Nevada’s legal team will tell a federal appeals court that the government is trying to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain even though it does not meet the original legal requirements for a dump, lawyers said Thursday.

The hearing Jan. 14 before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will cover six lawsuits that the state filed against the federal government between 2000 and 2002, and that have been consolidated……………..the courts might represent the state’s best chance of keeping out 77,000 tons of the nation’s most radioactive waste, lawyers said ………They contend the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to comply with the law in developing licensing rules and standards for the project………………….Congress and Bush approved sending nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain last year

Nevada prepares for nuclear waste battle – Environment- msnbc.com

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December 19, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics