Energy Secretary Rick Perry will leave his job by the end of the year, President Trump announced on Thursday.
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Gov. Steve Sisolak and all six members of Nevada’s congressional delegation have written to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, asking him to order a review of Yucca Mountain in light of recent California earthquakes.
A pivotal Senate race in Nevada that Republicans and Democrats covet for control of the upper chamber of Congress has become ground zero in the Yucca Mountain debate.
U.S. Rep. John Shimkus came to Nevada Tuesday with an unpopular message: Why he’s pushing a bill that would revive the Yucca Mountain project.
The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a resolution strongly opposing any attempts by Congress to make Yucca Mountain the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., vowed to work against any proposal from the Trump administration that would hurt Nevada.
Yucca Mountain continues to be considered by a Republican lawmaker on a key congressional panel to be part of a comprehensive solution to the continuing problem of storing nuclear waste generated by power plants.