May 12 2008
Another Good One Gone
Last week, friends of the environment lost a leader at the much-too-early age of 53. Joseph Egan was a nuclear engineer turned lawyer who, among other cases, led the state of Nevada’s effort to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Now ten years after the facility was to have opened but for the efforts led by Egan, he wrote his own obituary and will have his ashes spread at Yucca Mountain with the words, “radwaste buried here only over my dead body.” The cause was gastroesophageal cancer, and he will be missed.
