March 25, 2005, 08:54 AM CST
Nevada is accusing the Energy Department of failing to complete required environmental studies, and of usurping the government's railroad agency in planning to build a rail line to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
The state filed documents today in Washington, DC, asking a federal court to stop the Energy Department from shipping nuclear waste by rail to, and through, Nevada.
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The briefs filed Thursday were in a case the state filed September eighth with the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. That's the court that last year that threw out an Environmental Protection Agency radiation standard for the repository.
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The state effort gained traction last week with revelations that a government worker may have fabricated documentation during scientific tests at the site.
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