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A federal magistrate last week refused to issue an injunction to halt construction of the 3.2-mile extension of the Red Line subway, indicating that a suit to stop construction until a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is written will fail.
A group called Red Line Alert, composed of businessmen and homeowners who are affected by the construction, is trying to stop the extension on the grounds that the original 1500-page EIS does not adequately warn those affected by the ramifications of the extension.
U.S. Magistrate Laurence Cohen defended the original EIS in a 31-page opinion to U.S. District Court Judge David Nelson, and said the allegations of Red Line Alert are "frivolous" and, in one case, "simply inaccurate."
Environmental impact statements are required by the National Environmental Policy Act for all federal actions which significantly affect the environment. The plaintiffs contend that since 1970, many of these actions have been approved without the EIS's. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has approved 303 Indian uranium leases, and...
Uranium is the raw material used to fuel nuclear power plants and to make nuclear weapons. The health and environmental problems related to the nuclear fuel cycle have not been resolved, yet federal approval of all projects, usually through the issuance of prospecting permits, mining plans, and rights-of-way...