A California judge rejected a lawsuit from an environmental group seeking to keep Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from extending the operating life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
The judge on August 24 said a move by California lawmakers last year to extend the plant’s lifespan as part of the state’s regulatory oversight was valid. Friends of the Earth, a group that was part of a 2016 deal to close the nuclear plant by 2025, had filed a lawsuit trying to stop the 2022 measure that called for the state’s last operating nuclear plant to continue running for at least another five years.