Supreme Court steps into debate over where to store nuclear waste
The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste to be stored in West Texas.
Supreme Court debates nuclear waste disposal, questions status of Yucca Mountain site
"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.
Supreme Court wrestles with dispute over nuclear waste storage in Texas
The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in southwestern Texas.
Supreme Court takes on dispute over nuclear waste storage sites
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.
Texas tells Supreme Court it shouldn't be 'left holding the bag' for US nuclear waste
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 Confronts a National Headache: What to Do With the Growing Pile of Nuclear Waste
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico
Supreme Court wrestles with nation's frustrating search for nuclear waste storage
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico even as some justices worried about safety issues and the
Supreme Court wrestles with US agency's nuclear waste storage licensing power
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state of Texas as well as oil industry interests.
India: Delhi pledges to flatten garbage mountain
The Bhalswa waste mountain in the capital's northern outskirts has long been an eyesore and a public health hazard. Delhi's ...
'Mountain of waste' fly-tipped on busy road
Investigations are under way after a "mountain" of waste was dumped on a piece of land next to one of Bradford's busiest ...
Delhi: Bhalswa to be cleared by next March, no new mountain of garbage to be created, says Environment Minister Sirsa
An estimated 80 lakh MT waste was surveyed to be at the area in 2019, of which 74 lakh MT has been processed and disposed of, ...
Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste
In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are ...