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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 11 > Appeals court affirms Washington’s Hanford authority

Appeals court affirms Washington’s Hanford authority

By Nicholas K. Geranios / The Bulletin
March 11, 2009

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington state has authority to regulate mixed hazardous and transuranic wastes buried at the Hanford nuclear reservation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The decision upholds an order the state issued in 2003 that required the U.S. Department of....

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