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.

A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association claims to have found an increased rate of cancer for people who grew up living close to Coldwater Creek near St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri.