What is New, Recent Postings
(click on individual document below)

NRDC et al. Challenge DOE's Amendment to Waste Management PEIS Record of Decision

EDI May 2008 Newsletter pdf

Pentagon Strangles U.S. Economy pdf

Citizens Groups Win FOIA Suit Against DOE pdf

EDI Newsletter January 2008  html

KYNF/EDI et al. Reply Memorandum in KYNF v. DOE 12/13/07 pdf

EDI November/December 2007 Newsletter html

EDI Final Comments on INL RWMC Buried Waste Program 11/21/07 html

KYNF/EDI et al. Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Plaintiffs' Rule 59(e)               Motion to Alter Judgment in KYNF v. DOE 11/9/07  pdf

EDI October 2007 Newsletter pdf

Wyoming District Court Order in KYNF v. DOE FOIA Litigation 9/24/07 pdf

EDI Comments on INL INTEC Tank Cleanup Plan 9/21/07

KYNF and Co-Plaintiffs in KYNF v. DOE Reply Memorandum, 9/14/07, pdf

EDI August/September 2007 Newsletter. pdf

EDI INL RWMC Cleanup Plan Comments 8/24/07

EDI July 2007 Newsletter

Motion for Summary Judgment in KYNF vs. DOE 6/22/07

Radioactive Wastes and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, Robert Alvarez

EDI June 2007 Newsletter

EDI May 2007 Newsletter

 Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Fact-sheet, Robert Alvarez, 5/3/07

 EDI News Letter April 2007

 EDI/KYNF Petition to EPA Inspector General Requesting Investigation. 3/07. pdf

 EDI/KYNF Comments on Idaho Department of Environmental Quality INL Integrated Waste
                   Treatment Unit, pdf  2/28/07  

  KYNF v. USDOE  Court Filing in Freedom of Information Act Suit (2/07) pdf

  KYNF v. USDOE  Complaint on Advanced Test Reactor NEPA suit .pdf

  EDI January/February 2007 Newsletter, pdf

 
 
Click on the Underlined Publication Groups Below to View   Individual Publication Listing

 

Citizens Guide to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
    This EDI published book offers a detailed operating and toxic emissions history of INL,

Environmental Defense Institute News:  
    EDI's Semi-monthly Newsletter on Environmental Health and Safety Issues

Legal Challenges to Department of Energy Operations at INL
    This is a listing of court initiatives against illegal INL facilities

Petitions to Federal and State Environmental Regulators on INL Violations
    This is a listing of formal complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Idaho

Analysis Reports on Adequacy of INL Superfund Cleanup Projects
    This is a listing of formal submittals to regulators on the deficiencies of specific INL cleanup operations

Critiques of Centers for Disease Control INL Dose Reconstruction Health Study
    This is a listing of formal comments and challenges to the adequacy of CDC's Research at INL

 

 

Environmental Defense Institute

Citizens Guide to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

    The Citizens Guide is a 200+ page book that reviews the site's operating history, radioactive waste hazards, and Superfund cleanup process. The book is intended as a resource tool for individuals and public interest groups seeking information on the Department of Energy's historical, current, and planned operations in Idaho. We hope to have this available on-line in the near future. Hard copies of the Citizens Guide are available for twenty dollars ($20), and updated CDs are available for $30 from the Environmental Defense Institute. Send orders via email message to:  Click here for the full report

 

 

Environmental Defense Institute Newsletter

News and Information on Environmental Health and Safety Issues
    Below is a Listing of EDI's Newsletters by Year and Month
Click on the underlined date below to view that newsletter
 

        May 2008

• Court Rules in Favor of DOE in Advanced Test Reactor Litigation

• Update on KYNF/EDI Freedom of Information Act Suit Against DOE

• Citizen Group Wins Federal Lawsuit Against DOE for Unlawful FOIA Delays

• Trick or Treat by Mary Woollens

• Cancer-Is Treatment Worth Cost

• Waste Away: Bill would Ban Foreign Radioactive Waste

• British Study Links Radiation to Heart Disease in Nuclear Power Plants

• Ultrasound Detected Thyroid Nodule & Radiation Dose from Fallout

• The Costs of War

• Idaho Taxpayers have Paid $1.2 billion for War\

• What you don't know about your government      
  
    March- April 2008

• Judge Winmill Agrees to Reconsider Advanced Test Reactor Ruling

• Trick or Treat

• Cancer-Is Treatment Worth the Costs

• Waste Away; Bill would Ban Foreign Radioactive Waste

• British Study Links Radiation to Heart Disease in Nuclear Power Plants

• Ultrasound Detected Thyroid  Nodule Prevalence

• Costs of War

• Idaho Taxpayers

• What you don't know about Government
  
           January 2008

• DOE's Advanced Test Reactor Expert Claims Errors in His Declarations to the Court

• Meeting on Payette ID Nuke Plant Plan Draws 400 Residents/Activists

• How Risky is the New Era of Nuclear Power

• Hanford Test Reactor Fuel Being Sent to Idaho

• Radiation Sickened 36,500 and Killed at Least 4,000 of those Who Built Bombs, Mined Uranium, Breathed Bomb Test Fallout
  
        November/December 2007 html

• Groups Challenge DOE's Legal Attempt to Indefinitely Extend Antiquated Advanced Test Reactor Operations;

• Agency's Collude in Plan to Leave INL Buried Waste in Place;

• Idaho Falls Native Struggles to Receive Pension After 1958 INL Nuclear Accident;

• INL Employee Hearing Starts.
   

        October 2007 pdf

• Wyoming Federal Judge Orders DOE to Release Documents Sought by Environmental Groups

• New Agency Cleanup Plan for Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Buried Waste

• Cleanup Plan for INL High-level Waste Tanks

• Dems Do It Again-This Time on Missile Defense

• INTEC Tank Farm Soil and Groundwater Cleanup Plan

• US Use of Depleted Uranium is a Significant Threat
     
     August/September 2007  pdf

• DOE Denies Hazards with its Forty-year-old Advanced Test Reactor

• Push for Expansion of Radiation Exposure Grows

• Idaho County Downwinder Sounds the Alarm

• Worlds First Atomic Bomb Test

• Downwinders Concerned About DOE Site Fire Radiation

• Veterans File Class Action Suit

• Radiation Sickened 36,500 and Killed 4,000

• DOE Sick Worker Compensation Program in Poor Shape

• GAO Report on U.S. Financial Condition
  
         July 2007

• Smoking Gun Document Shows DOE Fears Public Response if Reactor Undergoes Environmental Review

• The Court Should Issue an Injunction Barring Continued Operation of the ATR

• Finally, Some Signs of Hope for Downwinders

• Downwinders May Have a New Worry: Genetic Damage

• Government Critics Question Validity of Results of Independent Radiation Monitoring

• Comments on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)

• Depleted Uranium - A Way Out? Compensation to those Affected by This Poisoned Legacy
       
         June 2007

• DOE Forced to Release Some Censored Documents

• DOE Confirms Advanced Test Reactor Fails Commercial Reactor Standards

• Group Petitions Defense Nuclear Facility Board

• U.S. Space First Strike Program Well Underway

• Post Office to Implement Periodical Mailing Rate Increases that Discriminates Against Small Publications

• Global Warming or Conversion of Military Industrial Complex

• Former Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 Message to the Nation

• Congressman Matheson Testifies on Nuclear Warhead Restraint
  
         May 2007

• Atomic Fallout

• Divine Strike Bites The dusk

• Nuke Workers Woes Continue

• Real Masters of Sp[ace

• Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
          

        April 2007

• DOE Federal Court Filings Deny Controversial Nuclear Reactor Safety Issues

• DOE Refuses to Address Advanced Test Reactor Hazards

• Idaho Approves DOE New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Operations

• Give RECA Compensation to all States

• Thwarted Warrior
    
    January/February 2007

• Groups Sue U.S. Department of Energy in Federal Court; Demand Shut-down of Controversial Nuclear Reactor

• Advanced Test Reactor is a Unacceptable Risk

• DOE Violates Environmental Laws with New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Operations

• Iraq War Will Cost More than $2 Trillion

• Bush 2007 Congressional Budget for Iraq and Afghanistan at $230 Billion

• Matheson: Divine Strike Test Unwelcome; Purpose, Health Risks Troublesome
  
  October 2006

• DOE Launches New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Treatment Plan

• Thyroditis Linked to Fallout

• Matheson Acts on Fallout Study
  
   September 2006

• DOE Plans to Operate the Advanced Test Reactor for 71 Years

• DOE Cleanup Plan for INL INTEC is Flawed

• Atomic Veterans' Compensation Denied by Court Ruling

• U.S. to Conduct Non-nuclear Experiment at Nevada Test Site
  
  August 2006

• Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free Files FOIA Lawsuit Seeking ATR Safety Information

• DOE Files Notice of Appeal in Idaho Nuclear Waste Ruling

• INL Cleanup Plans Still Inadequate

• Supreme Court Rules Against Government Whistleblower Rights

• Senate Approves Whistleblower Rights Breakthrough! House of Representatives Action Remains Uncertain

• No Nevada Test Blast for Months, Judge Says

• DOE Says it Plans to Go Ahead with Devine Strike

• Candidate Calls Vote Eliminating Net Neutrality a Tremendous Disappointment
  
  June 2006

• Decision to Delay Bomb Test is Right Move

• Something Wicked this Way Blows

• U.S. Federal District Court Rules on INL Waste Disposition

• DOE Should Fight its Own Battles

• More Censorship of Freedom Of Information Act Requests
   

        May 2006

• EDI Calls for Closure of Advanced Test Reactor

• Chernobyl Plus 20

• Fallout from Chernobyl Will Cause 100,000 Deaths

• Nevada Test Site Reopens in June

• Baby Tooth Survey of Nuclear Fallout

• Chernobyl Twenty Years On

• Hanford Waste - Lethal and Leaking
  
  March 2006

• Unacceptable Risks at the Advanced Test Reactor

• U.S. and British Conduct Nuclear Experiment in Nevada

• Where's Help for Downwinders?

• Downwinders Say Fallout Study Don't Add Up

• CDC Posts Final Report on Fallout Study
   

         February 2006

• DOE Managers Discuss Shutdown of Forty-Year-Old Advanced Test Rector

• Fallout Study Corrects Old Estimates

• Groups Petition DOE to Post INL Accident Reports
   

        January 2006

• Groups Challenge Plutonium Production Program Using 40-Year-Old Reactor

• Russian Cancer Study Adds to the Indictment of Low-Dose Radiation Hazard
  
  November 2005

• EDI Files Appeal Challenging DOE Censorship of Crucial Reactor Safety Reports

• Seismic Events Jolt Support for INL Forty-year-old Reactor

• DOE Launches New Attempt to Permit INL High-level Liquid Waste Operation

• Idaho Downwinders are Mobilized but Still Struggling for Recognition

• DOE to Request $400 million in Fiscal Year-07 for Nuclear Material Production

• Bait and Switch on Funding for New Nuclear Bombs
   

        October 2005

• DOE Censors Crucial Accident Analysis Reports on INL's Forty-year-old Plutonium Production Reactor

• The Real Issue of Plutonium Production in Idaho

• Republican Controlled Congress Passed Funding for New Plutonium Reactor at INL

• Downwinder Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Better than DOE Worker Compensation Bill     Tribute to Another Fallen Idaho Downwinder
  
  September 2005

• Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne Supports Plutonium Production in Idaho Despite Wide Spread Public Opposition

• DOE Cuts Radiation Victim Compensation

• Idaho Remains as NASA Nuclear Rocket Testing Location

• NRDC Continues the Good Legal Fight on DOE Attempt to Reclassify High-level Waste
  
  August 2005

• Serious Safety Issues at INL Revealed by Former Analyst

• DOE Spin Versus Reality

• Comments by Robert Alvarez on Inadequate DOE Regulation

• Advanced Test Reactor is Catastrophic Accident Waiting to Happen

• Tiger Team Assessment

• US is Set to Resume the Production of Plutonium-238

• Report Challenges Plutonium Exposure Standards

        July 2005

• DOE Releases EIS on Plutonium Production in Idaho

• Report on Hanford Finds Plutonium in Fish, Toxic Mulberry Trees

• EPA Region 10 Tries Again to Reauthorize State of Idaho Enforcement Authority

• Senate Restores Funds for Nuke Bomb Projects

• Plutonium Production in Idaho Widely Challenged

• Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation May Cause Harm

         June 2005

• Elevated Cancer in Lewiston Idaho

• Cases Against Hanford Finally Heard

• Downwinders Court Win Seen as Victory

• U.S. House Funds New INL Nuclear Mission

• Matheson Bill Preserves Fallout Records

• EPA Calls for Public Comment on Reauthorization of Idaho Hazardous Waste Management Plan.

 

        May 2005

• Downwinders Question NAS Report

• No Automatic Compensation for Downwinders

• Downwinders Question CDC Decision to End Thyroid Study

• Idaho Downwinders Speak Out Against New Nuclear Bomb Tests

• Idaho Approves Preliminary Permit of Major Pollutor

• NASA Space Nuclear Rocket EIS

• EDI Releases New Aquifer at Risk Report

• A Craig Downwinder Story
  
  April 2005

• Radioactive Fallout Didn't Pass Over Southern Idaho ??

• Fallout from CDC Hanford Thyroid Study

• So What Happens When the Sky Begins to Fall

• DOE Boosts Nuclear Weapons Budget

• National Academy of Sciences Slams DOE for Conflict of Interest in Setting Waste Rules

• Matheson and Bennett Fight to Protect Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing

 

         March 2005
        * Idaho Legislators Pass Downwinder Compensation Bill
        * Idaho Downwinder Commentary
        * Downwinders ask for same settlement - New rule changes standard for cancer risk
        * DOE Allows Robbing of Cleanup Funds
        * Radiation study set up as defense, records show it was supposed to be neutral probe
             into Hanford's effect on public
        * Update on High-Level Waste Litigation
        * Risks and Alternatives of New Plutonium Production Must be Fully Analyzed
 

      February 2005

• DOE Launches New Plutonium Production in Idaho
• Nuclear Rockets Undergoing Testing
• Downwinder Letter to Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden
• Hanford Downwinder Case Slated for Trial
• Congress Uncertain on Bush Requests for Funding for Nuclear Weapons
• Review of What Health Studies are Needed and Which are Not
• Calculating Radiation Dose
• Timeless Advisory from Thomas Jefferson

       November/December 2004

• Idaho Downwinders Tell Their Stories at NAS Hearing
• Researchers Find Radiation Causes More Diseases
• Idaho Politicians Sellout to DOE Legislative Efforts to Circumvent Established Nuclear Waste Laws
• EPA's Own Inspector General Says the Agency's Rulings Aid Polluters
• INEEL Changes its Name and Mission Again
• CDC Releases Draft INEEL Worker Health Study
• Nuclear Weapons Research Today = Testing Tomorrow
   

     September/October 2004

• Bush and Republican Congress Push to Restart Nuclear Bomb Testing Generates Blowback from Downwinders
• Congress Approves New Bush Funding for Nuclear Bomb Testing
• EPA Denies Freedom of Information Act Request on High-level Waste Operations
• EPA loses Court Appeal on Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain

 

     July/August 2004

• Idaho Cancer Rates Continue to Rise at Record Levels
• Tragic Legacy of US Development of Radiation Bombs
• CDC's INEEL Health Study
• CDC Analysis of INEEL Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project
• EDI Renews Pressure on EPA Inspector General to Follow up on INEEL Deficiencies
• INEEL Moves Ahead with Closure of High-Level Radioactive Waste Tanks Despite Court Ruling
   

     May 2004

• Health Dangers Loom Heading Down the Nuclear Testing Path - Again
• Downwinders Demand Comprehensive Health Studies and Compensation
• U.S. to Cut Studies of Atomic Bomb Survivors
• U.S. Debt Results in Major Funding Cuts for Radioactive Waste Cleanup
• Idaho Launches Another Misguided INEEL Hazardous Waste Permit

 

      April 2004

• Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act
• Congress Approves New Bush Funding for Nuclear Bomb Testing
• Idaho Issues Final Closure Permit for INEEL High-level Nuclear Waste Tanks
• DOE Tries Again to Exhume Buried Radioactive Waste at INEEL
• EPA Issues Provisional Rule Further Gutting Clean Air Act
• Voting with Computers can Simplify Election Fraud

    February 2004

• EPA Inspector General Issues Report Showing INEEL Violations
• High-Level Waste Tank Closure for INEEL Threatens Aquifer
• CDC Report on INEEL Shows Huge Deficiencies
• New DOE Attempts to Cut Corners on INEEL Cleanup

     November 2003

• Legacy of Hanford
• Bush Administration Attack on America's Clean Skies

 

    October 2003

• Idaho Cancer Rates at Record Levels
• Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada Restart Approved by US Senate Impacts US Northwest
• Four States Attorney Generals Oppose DOE Proposal to Change Nuclear Waste Laws
• DOE Appeals US District Court Rulings Against Its Management of Nuclear Waste
• Federal Lawsuit Alleges DOE Hides INEEL Mission Change Information from the Public
• EDI Challenges EPA Approval of Idaho's Authority to Enforce Hazardous Waste Laws
• Bush Administration and EPA Gut Environmental Laws
   

       August 2003

• Court Rules No on Reclassification of Nuclear Waste
• DOE Appeals Forced Cleanup of INEEL Buried Waste
• New Nuclear Bomb Testing Slated for Nevada
• Hanford Lawsuit Says Radioactive Emissions Higher than Government Claims
• Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Challenged
• Craig Pushes Funding for New INEEL Reactor

 

     June 2003

• Nuclear Reactors Pose Health Hazard
• U.S. Congress Approves Nuclear Bomb Tests
• Utahns Oppose Nuclear Tests
• INEEL Argonne National Laboratory-West Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Delayed
• DOE Moves on Plan to Produce Plutonium at INEEL
• New Mission for INEEL at Expense of Cleanup
• INEEL Reactor Spent Fuel Vulnerabilities
• Christine Todd Whitman Head of EPA Resigns

 

    May 2003

• Federal Court Rules in Favor of Idaho on Buried TRU Waste
• Snake River Aquifer at Risk
• Test Area North Proposed Revised Plan
• Restart of Nuclear Bomb Testing

 

   March 2003

• INEEL is Violating Air Emission Regulations
• Restart of Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Defies Regulations
• Idaho Considers Allowing Reprocessing Nuclear Spent Fuel

 

   February 2003

• INEEL is Violating Air Emission Regulations
• EPA Fines DOE $175,000 for INEEL Violations

    October 2002

• EPA proposed Rule to the Clean Air Act will Exempt DOE from Compliance
• State of Idaho Files Objection to EDI Amicus Brief in Federal Court
• INEEL Calciner Incinerator Closure Plan Announced
• INEEL Mission Change made by DOE Without Environmental Impact Analysis
• Federal Court Judge Approves EDI Amicus Brief
• KYNF Hires Attorney to Pursue Litigation Against INEEL Waste Operations
• Price Anderson Violations at INEEL
• Environmentalists Still Awaiting EPA Petition Response

    September 2002

• EDI Challenges DOE Intent to Leave Buried Waste at INEEL

    July 2002

• EDI Launches Independent Snake River Water Sampling Program
• Environmental Advocates File Notice of Intent to Sue Over INEEL Environmental Violations
• INEEL High-Level Liquid Waste Plants Violate Environmental Laws
• White House Plans to Gut the Clean Air Act
• EPA Issues DOE 30-Day Ultimatum for Info on Clean Air Act Violations
• EDI's Environmental Advocacy at Work for You
• What Can You Do?
• Dr. Alice Stewart Dies at 95

    June 2002

• Enviro's File Precedent Setting Lawsuit Against DOE on High-Level Waste
• EDI Challenges Idaho Approval of High-Level Tank Closure Plan
• EPA Risks Compromising INEEL Investigation by Moving it to Seattle
• State of Idaho Reopens Lawsuit with DOE

   February 2002

• Nuclear Waste - What is at Stake for Idahoans
• State Reopens INEEL Hazardous Waste Permit in Response to Citizen Appeal
• DOE Says INEEL Worst Performing National Lab
• INEEL Permit Ignores Flooding Potential
• DOE Inspector General Audit Says INEEL Unsafe
• EPA Region 10 Requests Extension on Environmentalist's Petition to Withdraw Idaho State Authority
• EPA and DOE War Over Clean Air Act Rules
• EPA Office of Enforcement Launches INEEL Investigation

   December 2001

• EPA Inspector General Requests Formal Response from EPA Region 10 on Environmentalists' Petition to Withdraw Idaho State Authority
• DOE Starts Construction on New Radioactive Hazardous Waste Dump in a Flood Zone Above Snake River Aquifer
• Radioactive and Chemical Pollution from Nuclear Waste Dumping Endangers Snake River Aquifer

    October 2001

• Reflections on September 11, 2001
• Time for Introspection
• Nuclear Terrorism - How Long Can US Luck Hold Up?
• Idaho Fails Test to Enforce Hazardous Waste Laws
• A Critical Analysis of INEEL's Proposed Hazardous Waste Dump

    July 2001

• Environmental Advocates File Notice of Intent
• High-level Waste Treatment Plant Violates Regulations
• Nuclear Caused Current Energy Shortage
• New INEEL Radioactive Waste Dump
• Just say No to Renewed Nuclear Tests
• Independent Reviewers Blast INEEL Worker Health Program 

   April 2001

• INEEL whistleblowers harassed
• Plutonium found in Snake River Aquifer
• Another deranged dump plan
• Psychotic attempt to bring back atomic energy
• Craig backs nuclear power production

   February 2001

• Auditors’ Lawsuit Alleges Radwaste Mishandling and Taxpayer Ripoff by DOE Contractors at INEEL
• Advocacy for the Environment
• DOE Internal Documents Confirm Non-compliance with Clean Air Act
• CDC’s Task Order Five Report

   December 2000

• Criticality hazard in pit-9
• 1,254 boxes of documents destroyed at INEEL
• Radioactive releases at INEEL
• INEEL Chosen to Produce Plutonium for NASA Pluto Trip
• TCE Injected into Snake River Aquifer
• DOE Wants Hazardous Waste Permits for Currently Illegal Ops Hearing Scheduled

   October 2000

• WERF Incinerator Forced to Close
• Wild Fires at Nuclear Sites
• INEEL Range Fires
• INEEL Whistleblower Discloses Health Problems
• Operation Bluenose

   June 2000

• DOE Announces Temporary Shutdown of High-Level Radioactive Waste Incinerator
• Who Can You Trust to Tell the Truth About Incineration of High-Level Radioactive Waste?
• WERF Incinerator Continues to Operate Without a Permit 
• Radioactive Waste Dump Slated for INEEL Flood Zone 
• Argonne National Laboratory West Revised Plan Still Deficient 
• INEEL Dose Reconstruction Health Study Update 

   April 2000

• Victory over DOE's Plutonium Incinerator
• Notice of Intent to Sue Filed

   January 2000

·         What's in the Waste Slated for the Plutonium Incinerator? 

   November 1999

·         Sierra Club, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, and Snake River Alliance Join Plutonium Incinerator Lawsuit

   October 1999

• Suit Against DOE Incinerator
• Dangers of the Contemplated Incinerator

  August 1999

• Incinerator Violates Cardinal Rule of Containment

  July 1999

• DOE Destroyed Another 700 Boxes of Documents
• CDC Refuses to Include On-site Individuals in the Dose Reconstruction Health Study
• New INEEL Transuranic Waste Incinerator Planned
• Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Bombs
• Connor Resigns as Chair of ACERER Subcommittee

  February 1999

• INEEL Document Destruction Worse than Previously Reported
• DOE Funding of CDC Health Studies is Aggravating the Problem
• NCEH Ignores Advisory Committee Recommendation to Include On-Site Populations in INEEL Study

  January 1999

• Documentation Destruction Could Threaten INEEL Health Study
• National Cancer Institute Study Challenged by Independent Researchers
• State Health Studies Also Indicate Problems Near INEEL
• DOE Revises Test Area North Cleanup Plan

 

Environmental Defense Institute

Legal Challenges to Department of Energy
Operations   at INL
    This is a listing of court and other initiatives by EDI, KYNF, and/or David McCoy
against illegal INL facilities
         (click on the underlined item below to view that initiative )

NRDC et al. Challenge DOE's Amendment to Waste Management PEIS Record of Decision.pdf

Citizen Action v. DOE Court Order on FOIA Suit, 3.31.08 pdf

KYNF/EDI et al. Reply Memorandum in KYNF v. DOE 12/13/07 pdf

KYNF/EDI et al. Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Plaintiffs' Rule 59(e)               Motion to Alter Judgment in KYNF v. DOE 11/9/07  pdf

Wyoming District Court Order in KYNF v. DOE FOIA Litigation 9/24/07 pdf

KYNF and Co-Plaintiffs in KYNF v. DOE Reply Memorandum, 9/14/07, pdf

Motion for Summary Judgment in KYNF vs. DOE 6/22/07

KYNF/EDI v. USDOE  Court Filing in Freedom of Information Act Suit (2/07) pdf

KYNF/EDI v. USDOE Complaint on ATR NEPA Violations (1/07)

KYNF, EDI and McCoy File Complaint in U.S. Federal Court Seeking ATR Safety Information (8/7/06)

EDI Unacceptable Risks at Advanced Test Reactor (April 14, 2006)

EDI/KYNF Freedom of Information Appeal to DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals
        12/16/05

Environmental Defense Institute, McCoy, and Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free Freedom of Information
     Request for Advanced Test Reactor Safety Documents (10/20/05)

EDI and McCoy Appeal to Office of Hearings and Appeals DOE's refusal to release requested Freedom  
     of Information Documents October 14, 2005

Lawsuit filed against DOE by David McCoy over INEEL Freedom of Information Act Document Request 
     Denial, September 15, 2003

Federal Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed by EDI in U.S.A. vs. Kempthorne Case Related to Litigation
     between the DOE and the State of Idaho over INEEL Buried Transuranic Waste  (8/26/02)

Federal Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed in Support of Natural Resources Defense Council Suit Against
     DOE over Nuclear Waste Policy Act Violations related to High-Level Waste (8/2/02), Broscious

Notice of Intent to Sue DOE, EPA, and Idaho over Operation of High-level Radioactive and Hazardous
     Waste Processing Operations at the INEEL (7/9/02)  EDI/KYNF/McCoy

McCoy Appellant Brief in INEEL Debris Processing Hazardous Waste Permit (1/11/02)

Amicus Brief in INEEL Debris Processing Hazardous Waste Permit (1/16/02) Broscious

Notice of Intent to Sue DOE, EPA, and IDEQ Process Equipment Waste Evaporator (6/14/01)
     EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Petition for Declaratory Ruling on INEEL High-Level Waste Calciner Closure  (9/19/00)
     EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Notice of Intent to Sue DOE, EPA, and Idaho on Calciner Operation (4/11/00) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

 

Environmental Defense Institute

Petitions to Environmental Regulators on INL Violations
    This is a listing of formal complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Idaho
        (click on the underlined item below to view that initiative )

EDI/KYNF Petition to EPA Inspector General Requesting Investigation. 3/07. pdf
 
Joint EDI/KYNF/McCoy Comments on EPA Plan to Grant Idaho RCRA/HWMA
          Authorization  (12/4/06) pdf

EDI/KYNF/McCoy Petition to EPA Office of Inspector General (4/28/06)

Environmental Defense Institute, Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free, David McCoy Comments on
    INTEC Liquid Waste Management System Permit 11/25/05

EDI Comments on U.S. EPA Region 10 Notice of Public Comment on State of Idaho Final Authorization
     to Revise its Hazardous Waste Program under Resource Conservation Recovery Act Noticed in the
     Federal Register 6/2/05.

EDI Comments on EPA Reauthorization of Idaho Hazardous Waste Management Plan (6/2/05)

EDI Comments on INL INTEC VES-SFE-106  Waste Tank Closure Plan (5/13/05)

EDI Comments INL High-level Liquid Waste Evaporator RCRA Permit (5/10/05

EDI Comments on Plutonium Production Environmental Impact Statement (3/16/05)

EDI INL RWMC Pit-4 Comments (revised 3/16/05)

David McCoy Comments on USDOE Consolidated Plutonium Production (1/6/05)

Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free Comments on Consolidated Plutonium Production (1/31/05)

Review of EPA Region 10  Response to Petition Seeking Withdrawal of Authorization for Idaho's
     Hazardous Waste Program.  July 14, 2004

EDI Comments on INEEL Argonne National Laboratory-West RCRA Permit, 5/7/04

EDI Comments on INEEL INTEC Liquid Waste Management System RCRA Permit 4/7/04

Review of INEEL High-level Radioactive Waste Tank Closure Plans,  1/3/04

Snake River Plane Aquifer at Risk ,revised 4/7/55

List of Un-permitted INEEL INTEC Waste Tanks, 12/5/03

Comments on INEEL High-level Waste Tank Closure Permit, INTEC Tanks WM-184, 185, and 186,
     11/25/03

Comments on INEEL High-level Waste Tank Closure Permit, INTEC Tanks WM-182 and 183, 7/11/03

Comments on EPA Region 10 Final RCRA Enforcement Authorization to the State of Idaho. (9/5/03)
    EDI / KYNF / McCoy

Petition to Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General Requesting Expedited Action on its INEEL
     Investigation and a Stay in the Issuance of Final RCRA Authorization to the State of Idaho. (8\8\03)
     EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Request to Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for Revocation of INEEL High-level Waste Tank
     RCRA Closure Permit  (7/11/03) EDI/McCoy

Supplemental Information to EPA Petition (2/28/03) on INEEL Title V Clean Air Act Permit,
     (3/12/03) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Petition to EPA to Reopen INEEL Title V Clean Air Act Permit (2/28/03) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Comments on INEEL Resource Conservation Recovery Act Permit (NOD) and Idaho Environmental
     Quality  Review of INEEL Liquid Waste Processing Operations, 2/3/03 EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Supplemental Information to Petition to EPA Office of Enforcement  related to Clean Air Act Violations at
     INEEL, 1/30/03  EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Hazardous Waste Code Discrepancies; letter to EPA Inspector General, EPA Office of Enforcement, and
     Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (12/27/02) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Petition to Reopen Public Participation Due to Failure to Meet RCRA Requirements for Addition of the
     High-Level Liquid Waste Evaporator at INEEL  (10/23/02) EDI/McCoy

Request to EPA Inspector General to Review State of Idaho Hazardous Waste Enforcement Authority
     (7/8/02) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Petition to Idaho to Reopen Public Comment on High-Level Tank Closure Plan 5/28/02, EDI/McCoy  

Request to Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for Investigation of INEEL High-Level Waste Tank
     Farm Closure Plan, (4/18/02), EDI/McCoy

Rebuttal to EPA Region 10 March 7, 2002 Response to the Petition to EPA to Commence Proceedings for
     Withdrawal of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality as the RCRA Authority for the State of
     Idaho (4/2/02)  EDI/KYNF/McCoy

High-Level Waste Environmental Impact Petition (2/22/02) EDI/McCoy

Rebuttal to Idaho Reply to EDI Petition to Withdraw State of Idaho's Hazardous Waste Enforcement
     Authority (11/16/01) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

McCoy Petition to EPA to withdraw State of Idaho's Hazardous Waste Enforcement Authority
     (1/29/02)

Petition to EPA on Clean Air Act (MACT) Violations (7/24/01) EDI/McCoy

Issues Presented to USEPA Inspector General on INEEL Violations of Environmental Law (2/5/01)
     EDI/KYNF/McCoy 

Petition to EPA on Clean Air Act Violations at INEEL(1/17/01) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Request to Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General to investigate INEEL hazardous waste permits (8/8/00) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

EDI Process Equipment Waste Evaporator Resource Conservation Recovery Act Permit Comments (12/22/00)  

EDI INEEL High-Level Waste Disposition: Letter to Regulators (8/14/98)

 

Environmental Defense Institute

Analysis Reports on Adequacy of INL Superfund Cleanup Projects
    This is a listing of submittals to regulators on the deficiencies of specific INL cleanup operations
        (click on the underlined item below to view that initiative )

EDI Final Co