The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. Texas and a Texas-based oil and gas extraction organization argued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority to approve a site to store up to 5,

For years, state Republican leaders have fought a plan to make Texas the home to a temporary storage site for the nation's nuclear waste. Now the fate of that project, set to be developed in remote corner of West Texas,

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: Where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico.

The justices heard arguments in a dispute over a federal license for a private waste storage facility planned in Texas.

The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S. facilities far from reactors.

The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to grant a license to Interim Storage Partners, Inc., to proceed with plans to construct a storage facility in West Texas. The NRC has also approved a license for a group that intends to build a similar project deep underground in southeastern New Mexico.

A law passed in 1982 was supposed to have created a permanent dumping ground for nuclear power plant waste − considered dangerous for thousands of years after its produced. Four