With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting ...
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, about the project during Wright’s Senate confirmation hearing.
Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...
On the same day that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary declined to fully shut down the idea of reopening a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, the state’s congressional ...
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the ...
A conservative policy roadmap — and past actions from the new president's first term — could offer clues as to what he might ...
Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” during his ...
Sens. Catherin Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) last week reintroduced a bill to prohibit the Department of Energy from siting a ...
“Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s nominee to ...