By Humberto Sanchez The Nevada Independent President Donald Trump Monday unveiled his $4.8 trillion fiscal 2021 budget blueprint, which included no funding to build a national nuclear waste repository at […]
Yucca Mountain
Nevada’s Veto Power a Sticking Point in Congressional Negotiations on Yucca Mountain
By Humberto Sanchez The Nevada Independent House proponents of storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain are unwilling to negotiate with members of the state’s congressional delegation over whether to give […]
Nevada urges GOP to drop new push on nuclear waste dump
Associated Press Nevada lawmakers said Wednesday that senators should end a renewed effort to create a national nuclear-waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain because the ensuing political battle would only […]
Nevada Could Be Ground Zero For Resurgence Of National Defense
Nevada knows nukes, or at least we used to. First, the election of Donald Trump reignited the debate over the possible resurrection of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. […]
Heller, Reid on opposite sides of rule change
Nevada Senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller were on opposite sides of the “nuclear option,” which the U.S. Senate passed. The rule change eliminates the use of the filibuster on […]
Eureka County Commission News
Yucca Mountain Abby Johnson related to the Commissioners that on Aug. 13, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ordered the Nuclear […]

