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 ...

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 ...

Elemental mercury will be stored at a facility in West Texas, after the U.S. Department of Energy selected a nuclear waste disposal company to hold the chemical until technology is developed to treat ...

Waste Control Specialists has been disposing of the nation’s low-level nuclear waste — including tools, building materials and protective clothing exposed to radioactivity — for a decade at a ...

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.

correctionA previous version of this article misstated the name of the landfill company involved. It is Waste Control Specialists, not Waste Storage Specialists. The article has been corrected. A ...

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 ...

To get rid of eight gallons of water, the U.S. Department of Energy spent $100,000. It’s little more than half a tank of gasoline in a midsize car, but the radioactive shipment from South Carolina to ...

A nuclear laboratory in South Carolina planned to send waste to a facility in West Texas along the border with New Mexico under a change in how the federal government classifies nuclear waste. The U.S ...

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Residents of the Greater Heights neighborhood, specifically in Shady Acres and Timbergrove, are increasingly concerned about safety due to frequent parking lot takeovers. Read full article: Top 25: Lt ...

This Midcentury Modern San Antonio home for sale was built by one of the city's top '50s-era architectsNovember 26, 2025 A rare home in San Antonio’s historic River Road area just hit the market, and ...