Supreme Court Questions Private Nuclear Waste Storage Site

The US Supreme Court appeared divided over whether Texas and companies that own land in the oil rich Permian Basin had the right to challenge a federal plan to let as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste be temporarily stored at a privately owned off-site facility.

The court’s liberal wing at arguments on Wednesday seemed to agree the state and property owners didn’t have the ability to sue over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s permit because they weren’t an aggrieved party.

“When I look at this, your only participation in the agency proceeding was to be excluded from it,” ...