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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Supreme Court Clears Path for States to Subsidize Nuclear Power | 2019-04-24 | Engineering News-Record

Supreme Court Clears Path for States to Subsidize Nuclear Power | 2019-04-24 | Engineering News-Record: States that want to subsidize nuclear power plants got a boost from the U.S. Supreme Court April 15 when it refused to hear a petition challenging a lower court decision that certain subsidies do not interfere with federal regulatory authority. Challengers say the question now is left to federal regulators. Two lower courts previously upheld zero-emissions subsidy programs in New York and Illinois that provide payments to nuclear plants that could no longer compete with low-cost fossil generation. The subsidies do not interfere with Federal . . .

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