{"id":36310,"date":"2014-04-30T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=36310"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:46:02","slug":"sierra-club-worried-about-precedent-from-nuclear-waste-site-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/04\/30\/sierra-club-worried-about-precedent-from-nuclear-waste-site-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club Worried about Precedent from Nuclear Waste Site Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new ruing could make it more difficult to contest similar projects in the future.<\/p><\/div>\n

From KXWT:<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

A state appeals court has again upheld a radioactive waste license for a storage site in Andrews County.<\/p>\n

The site is owned and operated by\u00a0Waste Control Specialists,<\/a>\u00a0and it\u2019s been at the middle of\u00a0a series of legal challenges<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Lone Star Chapter<\/a>\u00a0of the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n\n

We recently spoke with the\u00a0Sierra Club\u2019s Conservation Director Cyrus Reed,<\/strong>\u00a0who says the group\u2019s worried about the precedent\u00a0the ruling<\/a>\u00a0could set for other citizens or groups hoping to oppose similar licenses.<\/p>\n

The environmental group has been trying to get the state to reverse its permit for WCS for years, mainly because the group was upset that state regulators never gave it a chance for what\u2019s called a\u00a0\u201ccontested case hearing\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 basically a courtroom-style public hearing where citizens and groups can challenge license proposals.<\/p>\n

Since the group\u2019s initial lawsuit in 2007, the courts have said the\u00a0Texas Commission on Environmental Quality<\/a>\u00a0did have the right to deny the group a contested hearing.<\/p>\n

A state appeals court shot down one of the Sierra Club\u2019s challenges to the waste site\u00a0earlier this month,<\/a>\u00a0and now that court has again ruled in favor of the TCEQ.<\/p>\n

This latest ruling upholds the the Andrews County company\u2019s\u00a0license to store low-level radioactive waste,<\/a>\u00a0the type that\u2019s been\u00a0arriving in West Texas<\/a>\u00a0by the truckload from a shuttered storage site in New Mexico since early April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From KXWT: A state appeals court has again upheld a radioactive waste license for a storage site in Andrews County. The site is owned and operated by\u00a0Waste Control Specialists,\u00a0and it\u2019s been at the middle of\u00a0a series of legal challenges\u00a0from the\u00a0Lone Star Chapter\u00a0of the Sierra Club. We recently spoke with the\u00a0Sierra Club\u2019s Conservation Director Cyrus Reed,\u00a0who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[378,27,33],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36316,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions\/36316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}