( January 24, 2025, 1:13 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. senators and representatives from Texas are among a barrage of amici curiae that filed nine briefs in two consolidated U.S. Supreme Court cases in support of the state and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in their effort to convince the high court that the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ correctly interpreted the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) and elements of the Hobbs Act when it vacated approval of a license allowing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a government contractor to store spent nuclear fuel at facility in west Texas....