( June 30, 2026, 8:31 AM EDT) -- DENVER — A 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed and remanded a New Mexico federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the United States challenging a state agency’s definition of hazardous waste in a renewed permit issued to the Cannon Air Force Base (AFB). The panel held that the judge erred in ruling that the case had to be heard in the New Mexico Court of Appeals and was wrong to decline to hear the case because of a related state court proceeding....