Nevada’s members of Congress are wary of President Trump’s new Energy Department nominee, fearing he will favor the plan to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry will leave his job by the end of the year, President Trump announced on Thursday.
It would allow the Energy Department to prepare Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste, but the House nor Senate budgets include funding for the project.
A Senate committee approved an Energy Department spending bill without any money to revive the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project.