( January 21, 2025, 11:31 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Texas and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) argue in a brief filed in two consolidated U.S. Supreme Court cases 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 a west Texas facility, as the federal government already has clear directive for disposing of materials at Yucca Mountain and other “interim federal facilities—not a private facility in Texas.”...