Legal Opinion
Consolidated Edison Co. v. Hoffman
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 14, 1978PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Cooke, J.
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., operates a nuclear generating plant, known as Indian Point Unit No. 2, in the Village of Buchanan, in Westchester County. The facility’s cooling system, up to now, has been a "once-through” system by which water is taken from the Hudson River to cool the condensers and then returned to the river. This method of cooling uses high quantities of water and, according to concerned citizens and organizations, is extremely destructive of fish and plant life in the river.
An alternative to the once-through cooling system is a…
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