High Court Hears Arguments In Guam Beach Hazardous Waste Disposal Dispute

( October 8, 2026, 8:36 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 7 in a dispute between the U.S. Air Force and a Guam-based nonprofit over the Air Force’s continued open detonation of hazardous waste munitions at Tarague Beach in Guam, with the parties arguing first about whether the Air Force’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permit renewal application for the work is a final agency action subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and second about whether the RCRA displaces the more general environmental review requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....