ALBANY – New York can require a coastal environmental impact review of Indian Point’s nuclear power facilities as part of its federal relicensing process, the state’s highest court ruled Monday.
The Court of Appeals, reversing a lower court ruling, unanimously held that while the state adopted the Coastal Management Program after the Indian Point units were first licensed in the mid-1970s by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the coastal review now applies during the plant’s relicensing.
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