Legal Opinion
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 6, 1983No. 82-524PublishedCited by 1,318 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 83 Stat. 853, 42 U. S. C. §4332(2)(C) (NEPA), requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impact of any major federal action. As part of its generic rule-making proceedings to evaluate the environmental effects of the nuclear fuel cycle for nuclear powerplants, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) 2 decided that licensing boards should assume, for purposes of NEPA, that the permanent storage of certain nuclear wastes would have no significant environmental impact and thus should not affect the decision…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Kleppe v. Sierra ClubSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Industrial Union Dept., AFL-CIO v. American Petroleum InstituteSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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