Justices Won’t Review Nuclear Cleanup Bill
A group of utility companies lost a $2.2-billion Supreme Court challenge of the government’s nuclear waste cleanup plan.
Congress, in 1992, ordered utilities that used government uranium-enrichment services to pay a third of the cleanup bill. Justices said they would not hear appeals that argue the assessments are unconstitutional.
The Bush administration had urged the court not to intervene.
Dennis G. Lyons, a Sacramento Municipal Utility District lawyer, told the court the assessments are “a naked exaction of money from a small group.”
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