SENATOR GILLIBRAND & CONGRESSMAN HIGGINS URGE U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY TO CONDUCT NEW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PRIOR TO TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE LIQUID MATERIAL VIA THE PEACE BRIDGE THROUGH WESTERN NEW YORK

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Congressman Brian Higgins, a member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security, today wrote to the U.S. Department of Energy urging the agency to conduct a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on their plan to transport radioactive liquid material from a site in Ontario, Canada to South Carolina via the Peace Bridge through many municipalities in New York.