It turned out to be a 500-year-old sewage pit with several rare wooden items ... as part of a project to install an underground waste storage container. As he dug, Visser unearthed an old brick ...

State and local agencies are taking action, 14 months after neighbors raised alarms about the pit, which is leaking into Ryan Creek.

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.

The pit ramp up was intended to modernize the ... More: Feds lose appeal of vacated license for nuclear waste storage site in Permian Basin Under the Land Withdrawal Act, WIPP is allowed to ...

Doing so would allow the storage site to proceed. Or the court could delve into the difficult debate over how to handle nuclear waste in the United States. Since the U.S. began large-scale nuclear ...