A House spending bill for the Department of Energy includes legislative language tucked into the draft by Rep. Dina Titus that would prevent resuming nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. (MIchael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Lisa Song Sutton hopes to take on Steven Horsford in the upcoming election in Congressional District 4. She goes over her stances on gun control, transgender bathrooms in schools and Yucca Mountain.
The Nevada Legislature will be meeting to look at new bills that involve education and marriage age restrictions. Governor Sisolak has also requested to meet with the White House about the plutonium shipments sent to Nevada.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., talks about his first visit to Yucca Mountain as part of a congressional tour of the nuclear repository waste site that lies about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
Legislation to allow the Department of Energy to resume its license application process to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain could see a House vote as early as next week . A bill approved last year by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to jump-start the licensing process is being reviewed and the legislation could move to the floor next week. The legislation would streamline the process to open Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste and address the stockpile of spent fuel being stored at power plants across the country. “We owe it to the 121 communities across 39 states, as well as to every American taxpayer forced to shoulder the daily $2.2 million burden of inaction, to get this done,” said Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and John Shimkus, R-Ill., in a joint statement.
Nevada Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Heck who announced Monday morning that he is running for the U.S. Senate, speaks about Yucca Mountain.
On Thursday, April 9th Rep. John Shimkus, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce environment and economy subcommittee, arranged for himself and five colleagues to tour the Yucca Mountain tunnel, including Nevada Republican Reps. Cresent Hardy and Mark Amodei, in hopes that he can rejuvenate the abandoned Yucca Mountain Project.
On Thursday, April 9th Rep. John Shimkus, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce environment and economy subcommittee, arranged for himself and five colleagues to tour the Yucca Mountain tunnel, including Nevada Republican Reps. Cresent Hardy and Mark Amodei, in hopes he can rejuvenate the abandoned Yucca Mountain Project.