The company, a major energy supplier in New England, provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the state's strict nuclear regulations.
这家新英格兰地区的主要能源供应商上周在佛蒙特州宣布，将撤销其长期以来承诺遵守该州严格核能法规的决定，此举引发了合理的愤怒。
Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
相反，该公司做了它曾长期承诺不会做的事：在联邦法院挑战佛蒙特州法规的合宪性，作为一项绝望努力，以继续运营其佛蒙特扬基核电站。
The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.
自2002年起，这场冲突就逐渐显现，当时这家企业收购了佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——位于弗农市的一座老旧反应堆。
Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.
现在，该公司突然声称，由于2006年的立法，2002年的协议无效，并且只有联邦政府对核能问题拥有监管权力。
The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.
本案中的法律问题尚不明确：虽然最高法院裁定各州确实对核能拥有一些监管权，但法律学者表示，佛蒙特州的案件将提供一个具有开创意义的测试，以确定这些权力能延伸到何种程度。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。