“Don’t Overturn the Will of the People!” MA Clams Help Form Statewide Coalition to Protect 1982 Nuclear Referendum Law Under Attack by Governor Healey
Sixty-seven percent of Massachusetts voted in a public referendum in 1982 to require several common-sense safety protections such as having safe disposal of radioactive waste, an evacuation plan, and a decommissioning plan—as well as citizen approval of any new nuclear power plant built in the Commonwealth. Now, Section 45 of H.4144—Governor Healey’s energy bill, “An…