Governor Steve Sisolak has called President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to restart Yucca Mountain “another attempt to shove unwanted toxic material down our throats.”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that President Trump’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year will include $116 million for the Department of Energy to restart the licensing process for Yucca Mountain to become a nuclear waste repository.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada officials postponed until at least January submitting an end-of-year report to the governor about state efforts to fight federal proposals to bury the nation's nuclear reactor waste north of Las Vegas.
A top Yucca Mountain foe warned Las Vegas business leaders Monday that the proposed nuclear waste repository would turn Southern Nevada into a transportation hub for highly radioactive material.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The state of Nevada is trying to keep a federal regulator from being involved in decisions on a long-stalled nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Governor Brian Sandoval is urging state officials to be ready for a battle with the federal government over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A plan to restart a licensing process to store nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain site appears to be dormant for at least the next year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is moving to approve an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers.
Supporters say a bill slated for a vote Thursday would help solve a
Nevadans will get their chance to give input on the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste repository on Friday when the Legislative Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste convenes in Las Vegas.
The is the second and final meeting the committee will hold this year.
A federal advisory panel met Tuesday in a preliminary step to determine if a nuclear waste repository should be built at Yucca Mountain, which is 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Nevada's Board of Examiners has approved a $5.1 million contract with an outside legal team to help fight President Trump's proposal to restart the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump 75 miles north of Las Vegas.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Trying to further distinguish himself from Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, Republican primary challenger Danny Tarkanian is praising the Trump administration's effort to restart licensing of a nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas.
A U.S. House of Representatives bill to restart the process of making Nevada’s Yucca Mountain a permanent repository for nuclear waste would increase spending by $260 million over the next 10 years.
More than 100 businesspeople and government officials from around Nevada are making the rounds in Washington, D.C., this week to lobby on behalf of the Interstate 11 project and against the propose
