A defense safety board is concerned the Department of Energy has failed to address a vulnerability to earthquake hazards at a Nevada National Security Site facility where nuclear materials are stored — including a recent shipment of weapons-grade plutonium.
A $32 million National Guard readiness center under construction in North Las Vegas has been lopped off a list of potential military construction projects being eyed by the Trump administration for funds to build a border wall.
Senate Democrats grilled Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt during a confirmation hearing about his lengthy lobbying career for energy interests and possible conflicts involving public lands and coastal waters.
A Trump administration proposal to open Yucca Mountain and other interim sites for nuclear waste storage got a friendly reception Wednesday from key Senate lawmakers.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell forced a procedural vote Tuesday on the controversial Green New Deal to expose a divide in the Democratic ranks on a topic Republicans hope to use as a political wedge issue in 2020.
President Donald Trump secured a victory Tuesday over House Democrats who failed to garner the bipartisan votes needed to override a veto that leaves the president’s national emergency declaration intact.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry defended his $31.7 billion budget request Tuesday, including $116 million to restart the licensing hearings required to build a permanent storage facility for high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to tell a House panel that his $31.7 billion budget blueprint includes $116 million to restart licensing hearings on a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Congressional Democrats vowed Monday to pick up where Special Counsel Robert Mueller left off and continue probes into the president and his administration.
House lawmakers will again lock horns with President Donald Trump this week over his declaration of a national emergency to redirect Pentagon funds from military construction projects — including $97 million in Nevada — to build a border wall.
