Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, April 22, 1983
Court ruling allows
state nuclear bans
Warped
by Scott McCullar
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WASHINGTON—The Sup
reme Court has given states
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sweeping powers to halt nuclear
power-plant construction as
long as it is done to protect eco
nomic interests.
In a 9-0 decision Wednesday,
thejustices held states, using tra
ditional power to regulate utili
ties, may act to protect their
citizens against utility rate in
creases stemming from costly
nuclear power-plant construc
tion.
The ruling, considered a set
back to the nuclear industry, up
held a California moratorium
safety concerns, which are the
federal government’s responsi
bility.
“Congress has sufficient au
thority left in the states to allow
development of nuclear power
to be slowed or even stopped for
economic reasons,” Justice
Byron White wrote for the
court.
on new atomic reactor construc
tion pending development of a
permanent storage system for
high-level radioactive waste.
But the court’s ruling went
beyond the politically sensitive
issue of waste disposal and
cleared the way for states to veto
nuclear power development
within their borders if they can
justify it on economic grounds.
The court specifically said a state
may not take such action out of
Laurence Tribe, who argued
the case for the California Ener
gy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, said
the ruling “is especially impor
tant because states have the pow
er to completely reject economic
dependence on nuclear plants.”
Nuclear industry representa
tives insisted the ruling does not
affect plants currently under
construction or in operation.
But Tribe said the court’s
reasoning could apply to an
ongoing plant.
“If a state decides it’s too cost
ly and uncertain a source of elec
tricity, there might be other
issues raised, but the court
makes it quite clear it’s the states’
decision,” he said.
Donald Winston, a spokes
man for the Atomic Industrial
Forum, said, “It tells the states
they have the right to pass a law
like this, provided it involves the
economics of the plant.”
“The net effect of this deci
sion is minimal, at least for the
short term, because the (U.S.
nuclear) industry is dead and
decaying,” said Edward Mer-
row, the director of the energy
policy programs office for the
Rand Corp. in Santa Monica,
Calif.
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Lawyers from some of the 31
states that supported California
at the Supreme Court hailed the
ruling.
Klan to defend the Alamo
Ezra Bialik, assistant attorney
general for New York’s En
vironmental Protection Bureau,
noted this was the first time the
Supreme Court had ruled on
the states’ rights issue.
“Such questions as whether
coal is better than nuclear fuel
are issues in which the states
have more expertise,” he said.
United Press International
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Alamo from communists while
other robed members take part
in a May Day march.
Charles Lee, grand dragon of
the Texas KKK, said Wednes
day up to a dozen Klan members
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said
Wednesday that a reporter
seemed to find one of his prop
osed bills so important that he
would go ahead and introduce it
even though he doesn’t have
sufficient support to pass it.
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