United States v. Commonwealth of Kentucky Kentucky Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet, Secretary

How courts have described this case

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• holding that neither of the two Bur-ford circumstances was presented because the case “involve[d] a question of preemption under federal law, not a question of state law”
• Kentucky not preempted completely from regulating solid waste disposal from active uranium enrichment facility, but preempted under Atomic Energy Act from regulating radioactive component of that waste
• “[T]he AEA preempts any state attempt to regulate materials covered by the Act for safety purposes.”
• “[T]he AEA preempts any state attempt to regulate materials covered by the Act for safety purposes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).