Supreme Court steps into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico

US Supreme Court to Weigh in on Effort to Store Nuclear Waste in West Texas - Texas Scorecard

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Supreme Court steps into fight over nuclear waste storage in rural Texas and New Mexico

Political leaders in both states oppose the facilities.

Supreme Court grants Biden administration request to hear nuclear fuel storage case

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to settle a dispute over the temporary storage of nuclear waste in West Texas that could potentially upend decades of federal nuclear policy. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, considered among the most conservative in the nation, ruled against the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s…

Nuclear Waste Storage Site in Texas Draws Supreme Court Review

(Bloomberg) — The US Supreme Court will consider reviving a plan to store as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste at a temporary west Texas site, accepting a case that could be a turning point after decades of wrangling over spent fuel from the nation’s commercial reactors.

Supreme Court steps into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste in rural Texas, New Mexico

The Supreme Court agreed to step into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico.

Supreme Court steps into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico

The push for temporary storage sites is part of the complicated politics of the so far futile quest for a permanent storage facility.