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New Suit Filed to Halt Yucca Mountain Site

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From Times Wire Reports

The state filed another constitutional challenge to the federal government’s plan to bury the nation’s nuclear waste 90 miles from Las Vegas.

The lawsuit -- the sixth lodged by the state to stop the federal plan to bury highly radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain -- accuses the government of “arbitrarily and discriminatorily” changing rules to approve the site.

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