High court to hear challenge to Virginia uranium mining ban
WASHINGTON (AP) " The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Virginia's decades-old ban on uranium mining.The state has had a ban on uranium mining in place since 1982, soon after the discovery of a massive uranium deposit in the state's Pittsylvania County. It's the largest known deposit in the United States and one of the largest in the world.The owners of the deposit put its value at $6 billion and said it would be enough uranium to power all of the United [...]
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