US Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Uranium Mining in Virginia

摘要

Coles Hill, the largest-knownUS uranium deposit, will remainundeveloped after the US SupremeCourt ruling on June 17, which upheldthe State of Virginia's moratorium onuranium mining, rejecting a challengebacked by the Trump administration.In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Courtjustices affirmed a lower court's rulingthat rejected a lawsuit brought byVirginia Uranium Inc. and other ownersof the deposit, which is valued atUS$6 billion, on private land in southernVirginia. The company contested thestate's authority to execute the banenacted in 1982, saying the state policyshould have been preempted byfederal law.