Houston, June 19 -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Texas can not challenge a federal approval of a privately-owned temporary nuclear waste storage site, as the state is not a party to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)'s licensing proceeding.
The decision reversed a ruling by the federal appeals court in New Orleans that invalidated the license the NRC had granted for the facility in southwest Texas for 40 years, plus a possible 40-year renewal.
As a result, a planned similar facility in New Mexico would be restarted, according to local media reports.
The opinion, authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said that Texas, as well as the Texas-based oil and gas extraction company Fasken Land and Minerals, did not have the ...