Washington Attorney General Tells DOE to Reject Nuke Waste Order

The Washington state attorney general on Friday said the Energy Department should cancel a Trump-era notice that could lead to radioactive pollution exposures from the former Hanford nuclear site.

The attorney general, Bob Ferguson (D), along with the state Department of Ecology and a coalition of Native American and environmental groups, are targeting a 2019 notice that reclassified the threat level of certain types radioactive waste.

In their letter, the groups said the notice “gives the department unilateral authority to redefine high-level radioactive waste as something else, with no opportunity for input, oversight, or consent by state regulators or ...