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Vt. AG asks for status in California nuke case
http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_23556187/vt-ag-asks-status-california-nuke-case
Vt. AG asks for status in California nuke case
By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer Staff
Posted: 06/28/2013 03:00:00 AM EDT
Friday June 28, 2013
BRATTLEBORO -- The attorneys general of Vermont and New York have joined a national environmental group in criticizing the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's response to a nuclear plant closing in California.
Last month, the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled that restarting a troubled reactor at the San Onofre plant could not go forward without extensive public hearings. Plant owner Southern California Edison then decided to close the plant down. Last week, the NRC moved to vacate the safety board ruling.
Now Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell has joined his New York counterpart, Eric Schneiderman, and the green group Friends of the Earth in criticizing that move.
The attorneys general are asking that they be allowed friend of the court status because both states “have fundamental and longstanding concerns about the development of fair and transparent decisionmaking … within the (NRC),” stated the June 24 filing.
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Vt. AG asks for status in California nuke case
By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer Staff
Posted: 06/28/2013 03:00:00 AM EDT
Friday June 28, 2013
BRATTLEBORO -- The attorneys general of Vermont and New York have joined a national environmental group in criticizing the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's response to a nuclear plant closing in California.
Last month, the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled that restarting a troubled reactor at the San Onofre plant could not go forward without extensive public hearings. Plant owner Southern California Edison then decided to close the plant down. Last week, the NRC moved to vacate the safety board ruling.
Now Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell has joined his New York counterpart, Eric Schneiderman, and the green group Friends of the Earth in criticizing that move.
The attorneys general are asking that they be allowed friend of the court status because both states “have fundamental and longstanding concerns about the development of fair and transparent decisionmaking … within the (NRC),” stated the June 24 filing.
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Via http://fairewinds.org/media/in-the-news/vt-ag-asks-for-status-in-california-nuke-case
