Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a decision regarding a permit application for the Yucca Mountain facility. For those of you who may have forgotten, Yucca Mountain in Nevada is supposed to be a repository for all of the spent nuclear fuel generated from the many nuclear power plants around the country. A permit application for construction was submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission more than five years ago, but the NRC has refused to rule on it. The Court cited a 1982 statute that mandates the NRC to rule on this sort of application within 3 years and held that the NRC must rule on the application now. Here is the key part of the decision:
"The president and federal agencies may not ignore statutory mandates or prohibitions merely because of policy disagreements."
The DC Circuit is often called the second most important court in America, and here it is telling president Obama and his administration that they have to follow the terms of the law. Get it? If Obama doesn't like the immigration laws as written, he cannot just change them. If he doesn't think the employer mandate in Obamacare is yet workable, he cannot just change it by himself. If Obama does not believe that the payout caps in Obamacare are a good idea for 2014, he cannot just announce a change. ONLY CONGRESS CAN DO THAT!!!!!!!
The debate about Yucca Mountain will continue on, perhaps endlessly, so long as Harry Reid is Senate Majority Leader since he opposed the much needed project. Think about it. The material needed to make a so called dirty bomb is now stored at something like fifty different sites around the country. With Yucca Mountain, all of that dangerous material could be kept at one location under heavy guard and literally hundreds of miles from any city. If that sounds like a good idea, that is because it is a good idea.
"The president and federal agencies may not ignore statutory mandates or prohibitions merely because of policy disagreements."
The DC Circuit is often called the second most important court in America, and here it is telling president Obama and his administration that they have to follow the terms of the law. Get it? If Obama doesn't like the immigration laws as written, he cannot just change them. If he doesn't think the employer mandate in Obamacare is yet workable, he cannot just change it by himself. If Obama does not believe that the payout caps in Obamacare are a good idea for 2014, he cannot just announce a change. ONLY CONGRESS CAN DO THAT!!!!!!!
The debate about Yucca Mountain will continue on, perhaps endlessly, so long as Harry Reid is Senate Majority Leader since he opposed the much needed project. Think about it. The material needed to make a so called dirty bomb is now stored at something like fifty different sites around the country. With Yucca Mountain, all of that dangerous material could be kept at one location under heavy guard and literally hundreds of miles from any city. If that sounds like a good idea, that is because it is a good idea.
1 comment:
What is best, the project is designed to bury the waste DEEP DEEP in the earth
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