The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the states of Texas and New Mexico as well as the oil industry.

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders.

For years, state Republican leaders have fought a plan to make Texas the home to a temporary storage site for the nation's nuclear waste. Now the fate of that project, set to be developed in remote corner of West Texas,

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste to be stored in West Texas.