Alas.
Texas can import low-level radioactive waste from 36 other states, a commission run jointly by Texas and Vermont decided Tuesday in Andrews County.
The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission vote was a decisive victory for Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by a politically connected billionaire that has shaken off a series of permitting and court challenges by environmental activists.
The decision is sure to be challenged by the activists, but WCS could bury waste as soon as October at its 1,300-acre disposal site in Andrews County in West Texas.
As we know from when we first heard about this, the “politically connected billionaire” is Rick Perry sugar daddy Harold Simmons. After opponents got an injunction from a state district court judge to temporarily stop the hearing, US District Court Judge Sam Sparks cleared the way for the state to proceed, ruling that neither court had the jurisdiction to stop them. And so here we are. We’ll see what challenges follow. Texas Vox has more.