People v. Consol. Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

Memorandum. Standing undenied is the lamentable fact that thousands of fish have been killed in the wire mesh protecting the water intake systems used for cooling defendant’s condensers at its nuclear power plant known as Indian River Unit No. 2, located in the Hudson River near Buchanan, New York. This situation and others like it, where industrial processes are a source of danger to wildlife are governed by statutory proscription and the solution of these problems must be found within the enactments of the Legislature. In the instant case, the sole statutory provision accessible and…