• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that the state and its anti-nuclear ally, the New England Coalition, waited too long to make their case that Entergy Corp.'s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant did not have proper permits in place leading up to its re-licensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011.
• The court said that the two parties objected "only after the Commission issued the license renewal in March 2011."
• Two water-quality permits that were required under the Clean Water Act were at issue.

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A U.S. appeals court has rejected an argument by the state and an anti-nuclear group that the Entergy Corp.'s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant should not have been given a new operating license because its federal water quality permit was out of date. ...