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US nuclear weapon production sites violated environmental rules, federal judge decides
- A federal judge ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration did not follow environmental regulations in expanding plutonium pit production in South Carolina and New Mexico.
- Plaintiffs argued that a 2018 plan for the Savannah River and Los Alamos sites used an outdated environmental impact study.
- Judge Mary Geiger Lewis stated that regulators failed to analyze the combined environmental effects of their two-site strategy and did not provide adequate reasoning for their approach.
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US nuclear weapon production sites violated environmental rules, federal judge decides
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at sites in South Carolina and New Mexico in violation of environmental regulations, a federal judge has ruled. Plaintiffs challenged a plan consummated in 2018 for two pit production sites — at South Carolina’s Savannah River and New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory — that they say relied on an outdated…
·New York, United States
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Judge rules that Biden admin violated environmental law in halt of border wall construction
A federal judge ruled in favor of two Arizona ranchers who claimed that they suffered environmental impacts as a result of the influx of migrants under the Biden administration.
·New York, United States
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