Media Coverage
Source: Los Angeles Times
Media Coverage
05.15.14
The Department of Energy notified utilities across the country that it was suspending its fees for a future nuclear waste dump.
Washington, D.C.-based energy partner Jay Silberg represented the Nuclear Energy Institute and individual utilities before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last year regarding fees collected by the DOE for the disposal of radioactive waste. The court ordered the government to suspend collections of the fees until it found a viable storage alternative for a canceled storage facility.
“The federal courts have gotten fed up with what the Department of Energy is doing,” said Silberg, “We want something in exchange for our money.”
He explained that the intent of the industry's suit was to increase pressure on the administration to start acting.
According to Silberg, the industry has won $1 billion in judgments and obtained settlements of $1.6 billion. The DOE has projected that it may be liable for up to $22 billion in additional judgments just through the start of the next decade and more liability would accumulate after that, Silberg added.
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