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First up is Fox: senator. Ted CruzTexas Republicans are hosting a bipartisan amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to approve a lower court ruling that blocks nuclear waste from being stored in the state.
Cruz, along with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Jody Arrington (R-Texas), want the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not have the authority to Licensing is issued for waste storage facilities.
They argue that the proposed siting of the nuclear waste site “poses a significant threat to national security and economic well-being.”
NRC v. Texas will decide “whether the Commission has the authority to issue licenses under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.”
this Supreme Court It agreed to take the case in October after the Biden administration appealed a 5th Circuit ruling that the NRC did not have the authority to issue licenses to nuclear waste storage facilities. The permit, awarded to the Biden administration and a company to build a waste storage facility in West Texas, was challenged by Texas and New Mexico.
The bipartisan friends brief argued that the site of the proposed nuclear waste site in Texas “poses a significant threat to national security and economic well-being.”
Interim Storage Partners planned to operate a nuclear storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, but the decision sparked backlash because the facility is located in the Permian Basin.
“The Permian Basin is our country’s primary oil and gas producing region and a critical pillar of U.S. energy security,” Cruz told Fox News Digital in a statement. “I support Texas’ opposition to the NRC’s federal overreach. actions and will continue to work to ensure that West Texas remains the energy powerhouse it is today.”
Placing storage facilities near the Permian Basin would threaten oil-producing regions by making the region “an attractive target for adversaries,” the brief argued. Neither the parties wishing to operate the facilities nor the NRC “have the ability to consider the broader impacts of placing these facilities in the area,” the brief said.
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Cruz was joined in the briefing by Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cueller and Republican Reps. August Pfluger and Ronny Jackson.
“Energy independence is national security, which is why I support the expansion of all reliable and affordable energy sources, including nuclear, to meet our growing energy needs,” Arrington said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “However, I will not allow Washington to impose its wishes regarding the interim disposal of high-level nuclear waste on West Texas simply because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cannot — or will not — finalize permanent storage of nuclear waste elsewhere. “
Arrington said the state of Texas “and the people of Andrews should make the decision,” not “some faceless, faceless bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.”
The amicus brief noted that the dump’s location, while “remote,” poses “a significant threat to the security and economic well-being of the state.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (pictured), R-Texas, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Jody Arrington, R-Texas, want the Supreme Court to uphold lower courts Ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to issue licenses to nuclear waste storage facilities. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Energy security is national security. This adage is as true now as it was in the 1970s, when OPEC strategically cut oil supplies to the United States,” the document continues.
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“While we have come a long way since that time — building domestic energy production capabilities and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels — recent events are a vivid reminder of the importance of energy independence,” the amicus continued. . “They also show that the Permian Basin is of global importance.”
The high court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case in early March. (Ricky Cagliotti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The high court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case in early March.
