The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: Where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel.

The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to grant a license to Interim Storage Partners, Inc., to proceed with plans to construct a storage facility in West Texas. The NRC has also approved a license for a group that intends to build a similar project deep underground in southeastern New Mexico.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has activated state resources ahead of wildfire danger in West Texas this week. Here's what you need to know.

The US Supreme Court appeared divided over whether Texas and companies that own land in the oil rich Permian Basin had the right to challenge a federal plan to let as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste be temporarily stored at a privately owned off-site facility.

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.

The governor and local emergency management personnel are asking West Texans to remain vigilant as the wildfire threat level continues to grow.

Greg Abbott, a Republican ... that intends to store as much as 40,000 metric tons of nuclear waste on the Permian Basin in the western part of the state. Two questions are at issue in the case ...