High Court's Ruling in N.C. Case Could Threaten Waste Compacts' Authority

摘要

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that North Carolina should not be fined for failing to build a radioactive waste repository may threaten the authority of interstate compacts created to handle such waste.rnIn the ruling last month, the high court ended a decade-old interstate battle over radioactive waste storage by rejecting a regional compact's effort to fine North Carolina for failing to build a storage facility.