Justices Back Temporary Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Site

The US Supreme Court left intact a federal plan to store as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste at a temporary site in west Texas over the objections of local landowners and oil and gas operators.

Voting 6-3, the justices on Wednesday threw out a challenge to a crucial license the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued for the site. The court said Texas and a private company that opposed the project lacked the legal right to challenge the license.