Court: Obama broke law with nuke delay

[bananas]

Source: The Hill

A federal court on Tuesday ruled that the Obama administration broke the law by delaying a decision on using the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada as a permanent nuclear waste dump.

In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) violated a 1982 federal law by halting its consideration of the project. It ordered the NRC to deny or approve the Energy Department’s application to store nuclear waste at the site.

The decision is a victory for Republicans, who have charged that President Obama’s 2010 decision to pull the plug on the reviews ran afoul of a law that outlines Yucca as the nation's sole waste storage site.

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The administration, including former NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, contended that the NRC didn’t have the funds to complete the Yucca review. House Republicans have voted to appropriate more funds to complete the process, but those spending levels were never adopted.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/316797-obama-administration-must-rule-on-yucca-federal-court-says

[Orrex]

1. Impeach him!

Wait. What?

[Helen Borg]

3. If they could

They would!

[bananas]

2. Dissenting judge: little more than ordering the NRC to unpack its boxes and pack them up again

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/13/us-usa-courts-yucca-idUSBRE97C0IM20130813

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In a dissenting opinion, Chief Judge Merrick Garland said the lack of funds makes the court's ruling limited in impact because it amounts to "little more than ordering the commission to spend part of those funds unpacking its boxes, and the remainder packing them up again."

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[George II]

4. Let the DU gloating begin!!

[Ash_F]

5. 2 Bush Judges and 1 Clinton Judge

I knew it.

This is why we need to get our house in order so we can keep Dems in office for 20 years.

[riqster]

7. ^^^THIS^^^^. nt

[Cryptoad]

9. Damn right!

We got lots bigger problems than NSA legally collecting meta data........ and it starts with a Gee and ends with a Pee. the GOP!

[Ash_F]

10. For the record. I don't agree with the above poster

About the NSA so don't couple me with that comment. Not trying to go off topic. Just gotta lay that out there.

[Lugal Zaggesi]

6. How come Federal courts never rule that an Administration has broken the law

by illegally attacking a country based on willful misinterpretation of "intelligence" ?

They feel qualified to nitpick about little laws,
but won't touch the big issues with a 100' pole.

[jberryhill]

8. Probably because courts don't get to pick what cases they decide

...with the exception of the Supreme Court. But even then, they can't just say, "Oh, we'd like to issue a ruling on X".

[MjolnirTime]

11. Never going to happen.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. Simple solution

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Deny the Energy Department’s application to store nuclear waste at the site.

Put it beside Idiot-Son's place in Paraguay.

2 problems solved.

CC