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Supreme Court declines to hear case involving St. Louis contamination
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear an appeal from General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation and Commonwealth Edison, an Exelon company, in a case over alleged radioactive contamination in the St. Louis, Mo., area, leaving in place an 8th Circuit Court ruling that allows the plaintiffs’ state-law tort claims to proceed under the federal Price-Anderson Act.
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Alyse Huffman is a Professional Staff Member working on science and energy policy, including nuclear fission and fusion and the Department of Energy national labs, on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee under Chairman Joe Manchin III. She previously worked on clean energy and science policy on the Energy Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, where she also worked as the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Congressional Fellow sponsored by the American Nuclear Society. Alyse received her M.S. and B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida and she is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of North Carolina.
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