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 U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state of Texas as well as oil industry interests.