Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday hinted at using legal action as he continues fighting against potential storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry toured the Yucca Mountain repository Monday, two weeks after the Trump administration added funding in its budget to revive the facility north of Las Vegas.
Nevadans deserve to hear the science before we walk away from a $15 billion investment that could bring jobs and infrastructure that are desperately needed, especially in the rural communities.
A resolution restating the Legislature’s opposition to any effort to license Yucca Mountain as a high-level nuclear waste dump was endorsed Monday by Gov. Brian Sandoval and Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
Federal issues will be on the minds of lawmakers through much of Week 7 at the Legislature, with a historic vote expected in the Assembly ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and a resolution reaffirming Nevada’s opposition to Yucca Mountain both on tap.
A $1.1 trillion budget blueprint by President Donald Trump that includes a revival of Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste was declared “dead on arrival” Thursday by Nevada’s two U.S. senators.
A resolution expressing the Nevada Legislature’s opposition to developing Yucca Mountain as a high-level radioactive waste repository was introduced in the Assembly on Wednesday.
A lawsuit filed by Texas in a U.S. appellate court claims the federal government violated the law in failing to complete the licensing process for permanent storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Nevada will continue to fight any attempt to restart the Yucca Mountain project as the site to bury the nation’s high-level radio active waste, and supporters should walk away from the moribund effort, a state official told state lawmakers on Monday.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry called the nation’s laboratories and scientists “jewels” and vowed Friday to be an advocate for the department he once famously forgot was on his list of federal agencies he wanted to shutter.