Sancho v. U.S. Department of Energy

ORDER GRANTING FEDERAL DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS

HELEN GILLMOR, Chief Judge.

Two private individuals sue to enjoin several federal agencies and a European nuclear energy research center from operating the Large Hadron Collider (“LHC”), a subatomic particle accelerator straddling the French-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is designed to collide high-energy beams of subatomic particles into one another for purposes of scientific research. Plaintiffs allege that operation of the LHC could potentially trigger various irreversible processes that could lead to the destruction of…