The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold the NRC's licensing of a nuclear waste facility in Texas, dismissing a challenge ...

President Donald Trump fired Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Christopher Hanson on Friday, abruptly ousting the Biden ...

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

Hanson was appointed to the NRC by Trump in 2020 and named chair by then-President Joe Biden in 2021. His renomination by ...

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Wednesday a legal challenge by the state of Texas and oil industry interests to the ...

NRC Commissioner Christopher Hanson’s dismissal comes as the White House has sought control over independent agencies.

House and Senate Democrats slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Democratic Nuclear Regulatory Commission Member ...

President Donald Trump has fired a Democratic commissioner for the federal agency that oversees nuclear safety as he ...

President Trump on Friday fired a Democratic member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which the commissioner says is illegal. In a Monday post on LinkedIn, Christopher Hanson said that ...

Christopher Hanson was appointed to serve on the commission overseeing the nation's nuclear reactors by President Biden in 2020.

The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Texas's challenge to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing of nuclear waste storage ...

President Donald Trump has signed executive orders aimed at speeding up approvals of nuclear reactors on U.S. soil during his ...