Sunday, July 31, 2011
Read between the lines
SEATTLE – Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced that Washington filed a new lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The suit is a major development in the state’s longstanding fight to ensure timely cleanup of 56 million gallons of nuclear waste stored in Hanford’s leaky underground tanks, and continuation of the process to license Yucca Mountain as a deep geologic disposal site.
The new suit, which is a petition for a writ of mandamus filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Court, alleges that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is “unreasonably withholding agency action.”
“It’s the federal government’s responsibility to clean up Hanford,” McKenna said. “This lawsuit seeks to compel the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to immediately resume consideration of the application to build and operate a repository at Yucca Mountain.”
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Hmmmmm..... could this somehow be related to his candidacy for governor, i.e. keeping his name and face in front of the voters?
Yeah, 98507, and it's a faux environmental issue.
I don't think anyone opposed to nuclear power is that much of a "NIMBY"
The Hanford issue has been going on since, what, 1972?
It really IS an environmental issue, but I think Anon hit it right on the head....
McKenna's chances for governor went out the window when he caved to the Teabaggers and sued the Feds over the health care bill. At this point, he could single-handedly clean up Hanford, and it wouldn't make a difference for him.
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