The Obama administration has been continuously violating federal law by delaying a law enacted by Congress “without any legal basis,” a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision refers to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s move to delay a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia voted 2-1 in favor of ordering the commission to
complete the licensing process and approve or reject the Energy
Department’s application for a never-completed waste storage site at
Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.
In a sharply worded opinion, the court
said the nuclear agency was “simply flouting the law” when it allowed
the Obama administration to continue plans to close the proposed waste
site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The action goes against a federal
law designating Yucca Mountain as the nation’s nuclear waste repository.
“The president may not decline to
follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy
objections,” Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a majority opinion, which
was joined Judge A. Raymond Randolph. Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland
dissented.
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