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The former longtime military reporter, who turned 70 this month, died Thursday in Las Vegas. His journalism career spanned four decades.
The recent motion filed by the State of Nevada to formally end the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository project has sparked both support and outrage among Nevadans. Yucca Mountain has been a subject of national controversy for more than 40 years since the project’s environmental review process began.
Nevada filed a motion to continue a licensing effort for Yucca Mountain in the hopes of finally killing the decades-old plan to bury high-level nuclear waste in the state.
A half-metric ton of weapons-grade plutonium secretly shipped into Nevada in 2019 has been removed four years ahead of schedule.
The administration’s budget is facing headwinds in Congress because of a new tax on millionaires that Biden says will lower the deficit over the next decade.