Environmental Groups to Petition DOE to Abandon Yucca Mountain as Site for High-Level Nuclear Waste Dump
Recent Scientific Findings Trigger Disqualification
WHAT: Press conference to release a petition from over 200 environmental organizations to the Department of Energy demanding that the DOE disqualify Yucca Mountain, Nev., as a possible nuclear waste dump. Recent studies have brought forth convincing evidence that the site, which has been under scientific investigation for 20 years, must be disqualified as current law and DOE regulations require. DOE's response to the unquestionable scientific data has been to push aside these studies and attempt to rewrite the rules to ensure licensing of the dump. The environmental community rejects these unscientific and purely political approaches.
WHO:
U.S. Rep. James Gibbons, R-Nev.
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, President
Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Nuclear Waste Specialist
Piersma, Public Citizen, Energy Policy Analyst
Ann Mesnikoff, Sierra Club's Global Warming and Energy Team, Associate
Rep.Anna Aurilio, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Staff Scientist
!QW!: Cannon House Office Bdg, Room 210 - Budget Committee Hearing Room
WHEN: 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18
CONTACT:
Auke Piersma, Public Citizen, (202) 546-4996 x318
Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, (202) 328-0002
Booth Gunter, Public Citizen, (202) 588-7741
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