Expert: Public Can Influence Judge in Entergy v. Shumlin

On April 18, Entergy Corporation of Louisiana sued Vermont because the people of Vermont used the democratic process to order Entergy to close its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in March 2012. Vermont Yankee is three miles from Massachusetts and a stone's throw from New Hampshire. The reactor, which opened in 1972, has been plagued by problems in the past few years, including a fire that could be seen from many miles away, and a flood when hundreds of thousands of gallons of water poured ...