States press Trump to open Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste

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A group representing the nation’s state energy regulators is urging President-elect Trump ahead of Friday’s inauguration to move as soon as possible to restart the process to build the nation’s nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners was a major litigant in fighting the Obama administration’s attempt to scuttle the nuclear waste site after years of states funneling money into a trust fund to build it.

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