Cruz spearheads effort to derail nuclear waste dumping in oil-rich area of Texas (1 Viewer)

[FOX News]

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is leading a bipartisan amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to validate a lower court ruling preventing nuclear waste from being deposited in his state.

Cruz, along with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, wants the top court to uphold a lower court ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) lacks authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities.

They argue the proposed location of the nuclear waste sites poses "an enormous threat to the country’s security and economic...

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