The Nation - News from Aug. 6, 1987
The House rejected legislation that would have blocked operating licenses for the embattled Seabrook, N.H., and Shoreham, N.Y., nuclear plants. Congressmen voted 261 to 160 against the legislation, the subject of a furious lobbying campaign by nuclear industry officials who claimed it would have made every nuclear plant in the country vulnerable to local political pressures. Proponents of the legislation denied it would have wide-ranging effects and said it was narrowly focused to prevent the operation of the only two U.S. nuclear plants without fully approved emergency plans to protect the public.
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