THE Nation - News from Sept. 8, 1989
A judge in Troy, N. Y., ruled that the Bush Administration may enter the state court fight against Gov. Mario M. Cuomo’s plan to tear down the Shoreham nuclear plant. Supreme Court Justice F. Warren Travers ruled that the federal Department of Energy was an “interested party” through its ownership of the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Cuomo has sought to prevent the $5.5-billion Shoreham plant on Long Island from operating because of concern over whether the region can be safely evacuated.
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