Yesterday Laray Polk wrote an item for us about Harold Simmons’ Waste Control Specialists and that company’s efforts to bury as much nuclear waste as it can in West Texas. The CEO of Waste Control ...

At a site in Andrews, Texas, about half an hour from the state’s western border to New Mexico, nuclear waste from across the country is stored ahead of its final disposal without a federal license.

The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas, where radioactive and hazardous waste is stored, in 2021. Credit: Eli Hartman for The Texas Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court on ...

Waste Control Specialists’ operation employs 110 people and pumps around $1 million annually into Andrews County’s coffers through a 5% fee on all disposal activities — an amount that would likely ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A company that recently received approval to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from two states in rural west Texas wants permission to dump such material from across the ...

SALT LAKE CITY, June 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EnergySolutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Capital Partners, LLC (ECP), today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District ...

The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas, where radioactive and hazardous waste is stored, in 2021. (Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune) ...