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 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,

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico