In 2022, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided the case Oglala Sioux Tribe v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Like similar cases, the plaintiffs, the Oglala Sioux, challenged a US federal agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, over their granting of a permit to an industrial project, in this case a uranium mining project. The Oglala Sioux argued that the agency’s environmental impact statement (EIS) was incomplete and inadequate. The court rejected the Oglala Sioux’s arguments, decided that the EIS was sufficient, and ruled in favor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Critically, even though the agency did not follow EIS procedures completely, the court applied several exemptions allowing the EIS to stand. As in other EIS cases in recent years, Oglala Sioux highlights the limitations of environmental law in the protection of US communities’ local environments and cultural heritage.

Takahashi Tetsuya, a philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo and a native of Fukushima Prefecture, has traversed the devastated region numerous times since the March 11 disaster, engaging in various kinds of activism. An introduction by the translators is followed by an English translation of Takahashi's speech at the University of Chicago on March 10, 2012, and a postscript written by Takahashi in May 2014. Takahashi explains “nuclear-power-as-sacrificial-system” via his childhood memories in Fukushima and the People's Tribunal against Nuclear Power Plants.