The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear ...

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.

The Supreme Court rejected Texas’s bid to axe federal approval of a nuclear waste storage facility, arguing the state did not have the right to bring its challenge in the first place. In a 6-3 ...

leading the Biden administration to take the case to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration took over the case and defended the commission’s authority to approve private nuclear waste storage ...

Supreme Court melts down opposition to Texas nuclear waste storage site The Lone Star State doesn't have the right to block a private facility built atop an aquifer that would store half the nation's ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

In a 6-3 decision, the court said Texas and oil industry interests could not fight the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of the site.

The Supreme Court ruled against Texas and landowners who challenged a plan to store thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste at a facility in the state.

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.