The Supreme Court ruled against Texas and landowners who challenged a plan to store thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste at a facility in the state.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Wednesday a legal challenge by the state of Texas and oil industry interests to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing of certain nuclear waste storage facilities.

The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution