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,

Supreme Court Justices on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the battle over bringing high-level nuclear waste to the Permian Basin in a lawsuit brought by Fasken Oil and Ranch and the state of Texas.