FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is main a bipartisan amicus temporary urging the Supreme Courtroom to validate a decrease court docket ruling stopping nuclear waste from being deposited in his state.
Cruz, together with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, needs the highest court docket to uphold a decrease court docket ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Fee (NRC) lacks authority to license nuclear waste storage services.
They argue the proposed location of the nuclear waste websites poses “an enormous threat to the country’s security and economic well-being.”
The case, NRC v. Texas, will resolve “whether the Commission has authority to issue the license under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.”
The Supreme Courtroom in October agreed to take up the case after the Biden administration appealed a Fifth Circuit choice holding that the NRC lacked authority to license nuclear waste storage services. The license, which was granted to the Biden administration and an organization to construct a waste storage facility in western Texas, was challenged by Texas and New Mexico.
The bipartisan amicus temporary argues the proposed location of nuclear waste websites in Texas poses “an enormous threat to the country’s security and economic well-being.”
Interim Storage Companions deliberate on working the nuclear storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, a choice that spurred backlash due to the ability’s location throughout the Permian Basin.
“The Permian Basin is our nation’s leading oil- and gas-producing region and a critical pillar of America’s energy security,” Cruz informed Fox Information Digital in an announcement. “I support the State of Texas in opposing the NRC’s federal overreach and will keep fighting to ensure West Texas remains the energy power house it is today.”
The temporary argues that inserting the storage services close to the Permian Basin makes the realm “an enticing target for adversaries,” subsequently threatening the oil-producing area. The temporary says neither the events hoping to function the services nor the NRC are “equipped to consider the broader ramifications” of inserting the services within the space.
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Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cueller and Republican Reps. August Pfluger and Ronny Jackson have additionally joined Cruz’s temporary.
“Energy independence is national security, which is why I support the scale-up of all reliable and economical energy sources, including nuclear, to meet our rising energy demand,” Arrington mentioned in an announcement to Fox Information Digital. “However, I will not allow Washington to impose its will on West Texas regarding the temporary disposal of high-level nuclear waste simply because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can’t — or won’t — finalize permanent storage elsewhere.”
Arrington mentioned Texas “and the people of Andrews should make the decision” somewhat than “some nameless, faceless bureaucrat in Washington, D.C.”
The amicus temporary states that the placement of the waste websites — whereas “remote” — “present an enormous threat to the country’s security and economic well-being.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (pictured), together with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, needs the Supreme Courtroom to uphold a decrease court docket ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Fee lacks authority to license nuclear waste storage services. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
“Energy security is national security. That adage remains as true now as it did in the 1970s, when OPEC strategically curtailed its oil supply to the United States,” the submitting continues.
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“And although we’ve come a long way since then — building up domestic energy production capacity and decreasing dependence on fossil fuels — recent events are a vivid reminder of the importance of energy independence,” the amicus continued. “They’ve also shown that the Permian Basin has global importance.”
The excessive court docket is ready to listen to oral arguments within the case in early March. (Ricky Carioti /The Washington Submit through Getty Pictures)
The excessive court docket is ready to listen to oral arguments within the case in early March.
