06.26.09
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June 26, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Andrea Kott
(914) 478-4501 x 239
akott@riverkeeper.org
NY State Supreme Court Affirms that Indian Point Adversely Impacts Fish
Riverkeeper and DEC claim victory in effort to bring plant into compliance with CWA
(Tarrytown, NY) On June 22, 2009, The Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled in favor of Riverkeeper and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and dismissed Entergy’s petition to overturn a decision by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). That decision, released on August 15, 2008, determined that Indian Point’s cooling water intake system causes...
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04.01.09
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On April 1, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act provision governing cooling water intake structures does not forbid cost-benefit analysis when determining “best technology available” for power plants. The Court also ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may decide to not engage in such analysis. That’s good news for Riverkeeper, who is now looking to the Obama administration and EPA to revise the rule it wrote in February 2004 and to write new regulations favoring the preservation of fish and other aquatic life.
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04.01.09
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(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that cost-benefit analysis is not categorically forbidden by the Clean Water Act provision governing cooling water intake structures, but also that EPA has the authority to decide not to engage in such analysis. The Court, therefore, left it to the Obama-Jackson Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to decide whether and how to compare costs to benefits when it issues a new regulation for existing power plants.
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03.18.09
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On March 18, Riverkeeper (RvK) submitted comments opposing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) review of the environmental impacts of Indian Point, which recommended relicensing the plant. Refuting NRC’s claims that the plant poses no significant public or environmental health threats, RvK's comments state that the plant kills more than a billion fish every year; its spent fuel pools are leaking radioactive water; it is vulnerable to terrorist attack; and, it is amassing thousands of tons of nuclear waste that will remain on the site for decades.
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03.18.09
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Today, Riverkeeper filed written comments with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), challenging its assessment and conclusion that environmental impacts caused by Indian Point’s operation are not severe enough to prevent relicensing of the plant for 20 more years. The commission’s conclusion appeared in its December 2008 draft environmental analysis.
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03.05.09
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On March 5, the NRC denied an appeal filed by Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, which sought to throw out an important environmental claim raised by Riverkeeper in its challenge to the plant’s relicensing.
Riverkeeper’s claim objects to Entergy’s assessment of the environmental impacts of highly toxic radioactive water leaks from the facility’s spent fuel pools. Now that the Commissioners have rejected this final appeal, Riverkeeper, bolstered further, will continue to litigate this important issue.
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11.24.08
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(Washington, D.C.) On December 2, 2008,
Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc. will be argued in the
United States Supreme Court. The case will determine whether or not the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to compare costs with benefits in determining the
“best technology available” (BTA) for the cooling water intake structures of existing power plants.
Richard Lazarus, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center, will argue the case on behalf of Riverkeeper.
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