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Local newspapers ran editorials opposing it. Utah Congressman Jim Matheson co-sponsored legislation that would stop LLRW importation altogether. And then came what may have been the deathblow. As public pressure mounted, Utah governor Jon Huntsman, who initially supported the plan, vowed to quash it. He ordered the state's representative to a multi-state compact that oversees LLRW disposal to vote against it. The company has since filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the compact does not have authority over the Utah landfill. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will ultimately approve or deny the application...
...House and Senate campaigns since 2005. (The company has operations in South Carolina and its political action committees and employees have given at least $45,800 to that state's senior Senator Lindsey Graham since 2005.) In Utah, the EnergySolutions Inc. Fund for Effective Government contributed $5,000 to Matheson in the 2005-2006 cycle and $1,000 so far in the 2007-2008 cycle. That seems to have been for naught. Matheson now declares that EnergySolutions wants to make Utah a "dumping ground...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that the plague in the film I Am Legend is bacterial, when it is in fact viral. The same story also misidentified Richard Matheson's TV work Trilogy of Terror as Tales of Terror
...Early in his career (he's still going at age 81), Matheson was fascinated with man's isolation in the post-nuclear world - Robinson Crusoe or Natty Bumppo after the H-bomb or an epidemic. The Shrinking Man, published in 1956 and immediately filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, considered the effects of radiation on an ordinary fellow who grows smaller and smaller, to infinitesimal size. In I Am Legend, Neville, seemingly the only person not killed or infected by a plague, fends for himself, searches desperately for other survivors and hunts down the bands of infected mutants who come...
...funny how filmmakers are drawn to Matheson's subject of post-apocalyptic annihilation, yet feel the need to "fix" the story and welsh out on its conclusions. Each of the I Am Legend adaptations embroiders or softens the original, offering a vision its makers see as more pertinent to their time. Not that there's anything morally pernicious about changing a book when it becomes a movie. The only question that matters: Does the new thing work...