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Monday, October 6, 2003
Call it radioactive
The Bush administration should take a message from a congressional vote on Hanford: Quit trying to pretend that dangerous nuclear waste is something else.
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives said it doesn't want to give the Department of Energy authority to reclassify intensely radioactive waste as a less toxic substance. The department has lobbied to have the power included in a proposed energy bill.
The House approved a resolution offered by U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island. Unfortunately, the lobbying is just the latest Bush administration effort to take a phony approach to environmental cleanup at Hanford and storage sites in Idaho and South Carolina. In July, a federal judge in Idaho ruled against another reclassification attempt.
It's time for the federal government to face its obligations, not try to mislabel a radioactive problem.
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