It was the first such congressional tour of the site since 2015, when Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the environment, led a half dozen lawmakers underground to review the proposed nuclear waste repository.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., talks about his first visit to Yucca Mountain as part of a congressional tour of the nuclear repository waste site that lies about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
Early Saturday morning, I spotted two green beetles on a young apple tree. These are close relatives of what we called in the Midwest “June beetles.”
