EPA Region 1 had submitted a May 6, 2024, request to approve longer storage timeframes for polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCB”) waste under a 40 C.F.R. § 761.62 (c) risk-based approval.

The high court rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site in the area on Wednesday, June 18, marking a victory for the federal government after a decade of legal wrangling by the state of ...

As a result, any interim storage site is not temporary "in any meaningful sense," he added. Justice Samuel Alito noted that the 40-year license for the Texas site could be renewed, maybe indefinitely.

In addition, waste collection regularly scheduled for Tuesday will be picked up on Friday, Jan. 10 and the regularly scheduled Friday waste collection will also take place on Jan. 10.