State lawmakers file bill to ban radioactive waste storage

Texas lawmakers are again trying to ban the most dangerous type of radioactive waste from entering the Lone Star State — at the same time as a nuclear waste disposal company in West Texas pursues a federal application to store the highly radioactive materials. Environmental and consumer advocates for years have decried a proposal to build a 332-acre site in West Texas near the New M...

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