The Executive Order drove the NRC’s first-ever permit denial over racial siting fairness

Evidence

The transformations throughout the federal government go far beyond the Executive Order, however; they affect law and policy across a broad spectrum of agencies and in Congress. Some of the impact of the transformation was sudden and unexpected: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for example, cited the Executive Order as the basis for its denial of a permit for a uranium-enrichment facility in rural Louisiana, the first permit ever denied in the NRC’s history, because of significant questions raised over the racial fairness of the siting of the plant in an African American community. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 712

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch9 and ch3 mentions of the Louisiana uranium denial rooted in Bullard’s discrimination statistics. — connects to: Clinton’s 1994 Executive Order made environmental justice official federal policy — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 709; Bullard’s documentation of racial bias caused denial of a Louisiana nuclear waste permit — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 149; The 1997 NRC board overturned a uranium permit on Bullard’s discrimination statistics — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 366
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 712

Broader Connections

• The 1997 NRC board overturned a uranium permit on Bullard’s discrimination statistics #corroborates (0.92) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 366