U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Utah Appeal on PFS

From today's edition of the Salt Lake Tribune:

The Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's ruling striking down a series of Utah laws aimed at blocking a private high-level nuclear waste storage site in the state.

The justices met Friday to consider Utah's appeal and announced Monday, without comment, that they would not hear arguments in the case.

State officials said they had expected as much, even while hoping for a different outcome.

"We had concluded our odds were fairly low on this," said Mike Lee, counsel to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. "The governor is disappointed by that, but not terribly surprised."

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