Environmental coalition letter to U.S. House of Representatives urges opposition to funding for Yucca and CIS dumps

A coalition of environmental groups, on behalf of their millions of members across America, has written to the U.S. House of Representatives. The letter expresses opposition to renewed funding for the highly controversial Yucca Mountain, Nevada nuclear waste dump proposal. It also expresses opposition to funding for proposed irradiated nuclear fuel centralized interim storage facilities, such as those currently targeted at NM and TX. Here is the relevant section of the letter:

The bill also includes $267.7 million in a continued attempt to push the unworkable, long ago rejected proposal to dispose of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. It also includes a rider in Sec. 508 that prevents funds being used to close the facility. Decades from now others will face the precise predicament we find ourselves in today if Congress tries to ram through unworkable nuclear waste solutions contentiously opposed by States, lacking a sound legal structure [or] science-based foundation, and devoid of public understanding and consent. The current efforts to quickly restart the contentious Yucca Mountain licensing process and a similarly contentious licensing process for an interim storage facility simply will not work.