## Hudson River Set to Receive Radioactive Waste Following Court Ruling
Last month, a federal court ruling reversed a 2023 ruling in favor of the “Save the Hudson” law, which banned any dumping of radioactive waste into waterways. Federal law preempts such state-level rulings, deemed US District Judge Kenneth Karas in the recent ruling, and as such, Holtec, the nuclear-power focused energy firm responsible for the decommissioning of New York State’s Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County, some 35 miles north of midtown Manhattan and only a skip and a hop farther from the Big Apple’s one and only designated surfing beach, can proceed as they wish under notably laxer federal regulations.
those regulations including permitting radioactive waste-namely tritiated water, which contains the nuclear-energy byproduct tritium, a carcinogen, among other things-to be released into the Hudson at a rate of roughly 45,000 gallons per year, with a total 1.5 million gallons of the waste water ultimately being deposited into the Hudson River in coming years.