Today (June 18, 2025) the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that New Mexico and Texas, and groups like the Sierra Club, did not have the right to challenge Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses for “interim” high-level nuclear waste storage facilities in their respective states. The NRC denied intervention for these entities in the licensing process and therefore the court claimed that the states did not have the right to challenge the license.
“Communities that opted to generate electricity with nuclear power got the property tax, the jobs and the energy from these plants. And now Holtec wants to export the nation’s entire store of high level nuclear waste to New Mexico where our communities already suffer the legacy of unmediated uranium waste pilings, nuclear waste from the labs at WIPP, impacts of nuclear weapon pit production at Los Alamos, and uncompensated victims of nuclear bomb testing? Holtec wants to ship high-level nuclear waste through your communities and ours with no promise of a permanent storage facility? This waste should be kept in the closest, safest location to its source. And now we’re denied legal intervention in these decisions that profoundly impact our communities? Not right.” Camilla Feibelman, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter Director
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