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As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands.
Holtec International is at the center of a controversy over plans to discharge water from the spent fuel pool at the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts into Cape Cod Bay as part of the plant's decommissioning.
Sen. Ed Markey made the almost unheard of move to host a field congressional subcommittee hearing at Plymouth Town Hall.
The CEO of the company that owns the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station pledged today not to release radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay unless major stakeholders approve. Kris Singh, CEO and founder of Holtec, made the statement at a Senate hearing in Plymouth chaired by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey. “I said we will not dump contaminated water anywhere,” he said. “I also said that the water is not contaminated by its definition, but we will not discharge any water in the Cape Cod Bay unless we have major stakeholder concurrence.” Those stakeholders include the state, the U.S. Environmental Protecti...