U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, the ranking Democrat on the House’s Natural Resources Committee, raised the issue of Atlantic sturgeon being put on the federal government’s list of threatened species in letters he sent Monday to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Markey asked that the relicensing of Entergy Corp.’s 40-year-old power plant be put on hold until the agencies can address how the plant would affect the Atlantic sturgeon and river herring, which is now up for consideration for the threatened species list.
Markey points out that the NRC’s environmental impact report in 2007 predated the new concerns. The report, Markey says, needs to be updated to address this new information.
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