President-elect Donald Trump’s plans regarding site for high-level nuclear waste remain unclear, but his pick for energy secretary endorsed plan to temporarily store it at site in Texas during his governorship.
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Harry Reid is stepping down from leadership and leaving the chamber with few regrets and an armful of legislative victories from three decades of serving the Democratic Caucus and his home state of Nevada.
Nevada will have an advocate in the American Gaming Association against any effort to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository northwest of Las Vegas.
Nevada’s newest U.S. senator knows in her head that passing comprehensive immigration reform is a long shot, especially in the dawning Donald Trump era. But that doesn’t mean she’s going to stop fighting.
Remember that time the federal government passed a law saying Nevada’s Yucca Mountain should be the only place to bury the nation’s high-level nuclear waste?
It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.