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US FTC Decides Not to Ban Nuclear Ads, New York Times Says
US FTC Decides Not to Ban Nuclear Ads, New York Times Says
Washington, Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission
ruled that while industry advertisements made unsubstantiated claims
about the benefits of nuclear power, the ads shouldn't be banned
because they are political speech protected under the First
Amendment, the New York Times reported. The FTC agreed with the
Better Business Bureau and the Natural Resources Defense Council that
the ads by the Nuclear Energy Institute -- published in the New
Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, Roll Call and the
Hill -- made exaggerated claims about the environmental advantages of
nuclear power, the paper said. The FTC said that if the claims had
been made in a direct mailing to consumers they would have been
commercial speech, not protected by the First Amendment, the Times
said.
In February, the General Accounting Office released a report that
said U.S. regulators were too relaxed about safety at nuclear power
plants.
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