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Mothers for Peace, Friends of the Earth, and the Environmental Working Group are asking for a formal hearing to challenge Pacific, Gas and Electric's application to extend Diablo Canyon's operations for another 20 years. Board members with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will consider these arguments in deciding whether to approve the requested hearing.

Partners Ryan Lighty and Kirstin Gibbs wrote an article for Reuters discussing signs that the nuclear industry is poised for growth and investment in the coming years. The article notes provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and growing interest in environmental, social, and governance considerations by investors as some of the factors that could drive investment toward nuclear power plants.

In this Law360 article, Ryan Lighty discusses the US Congress’s efforts to incentivize coal-to-nuclear transitions. With the recently passed Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, Congress authorized a new program to foster the deployment of next-generation nuclear facilities at depowered coal sites.

Partner Ryan Lighty detailed the US Congress’s efforts to incentivize coal-to-nuclear transitions in an article for Law360.

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