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Joseph Egan, lawyer, 53; fought nuclear waste site

WASHINGTON — Joseph Egan, a nuclear engineer-turned-lawyer who led Nevada’s legal campaign to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, died Wednesday at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 53.

The cause was gastroesophageal cancer, his family said.

Egan, in an obituary he....

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