Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Watkins
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 9, 1991No. Civ. A. 88-3519 (RCL)PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
LAMBERTH, District Judge.
This case comes before the court on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. The plaintiff Sierra Club seeks to enjoin the Department of Energy (“the Department”) from, shipping spent nuclear fuel rods from Taiwan through the port of Hampton Roads, Virginia until the Department files an environmental impact statement (“EIS”) or cures an allegedly inadequate environmental assessment (“EA”) 1 which found that shipping the fuel rods would have “no significant impact” on the environment. The Department asks this court to defer to its finding of…
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