Tag: Nuclear Waste

Although the administration opposes a central storage site being built at Yucca Mountain, Ernest Moniz is heading an effort to find an interim storage facility to move the waste being stored at power plants. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Moniz: Nuclear dump needed for Obama’s climate goals

John Siciliano · September 14, 2016 10:33 pm

Carbon emissions from Vermont's electricity sector rose 5 percent after it closed its nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Alexander: Sanders’ state increased carbon pollution

John Siciliano · September 14, 2016 8:19 pm

Energy and Environment

House GOP: EPA ignoring threat of nuclear waste fire

John Siciliano · July 13, 2016 5:53 pm

In this Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Iran's heavy water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Bribing Tehran

Gary Bauer · May 13, 2016 4:03 am

The U.N. Security Council has repeatedly warned leader Kim Jong-un and strapped sanctions on the country, but the communist government so far has not backed down. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Report: ‘Significant activity’ at North Korea nuke facility

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2016 3:05 am

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley celebrated her first victory late Tuesday in a continuing lawsuit against the Department of Energy. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

Gov. Nikki Haley forces Feds to move plutonium

Anna Giaritelli · March 30, 2016 3:31 am

Lawmakers want to ensure that the administration follows the law and builds the Nevada nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Energy and Environment

GOP holding Obama’s feet to the fire on Yucca Mountain

John Siciliano · March 18, 2016 5:16 pm

Scrapping the Yucca project was seen as a favor to then-Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who is adamantly opposed to making the site in his state the main receptacle for the nation's nuclear reactor waste. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

House GOP wants probe into funding for Yucca nuclear storage

John Siciliano · February 29, 2016 10:07 pm

The nuclear energy industry blasted the Obama administration Wednesday for reinstating a 10-year tax that Congress rejected in December's omnibus spending bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Industry says budget adds ‘unfair’ tax to clean up feds’ nuclear mess

John Siciliano · February 11, 2016 12:23 am

In this file photo from 2008, Democratic presidential hopeful and then-Sen. Hillary Clinton leads a roundtable discussion onÂ storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Jan. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Clinton fundraised with Yucca Mountain contractor

Sarah Bedford · November 4, 2015 10:04 pm

Lawmakers want to ensure that the administration follows the law and builds the Nevada nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Energy and Environment

GOP explores way around Obama’s nuclear waste decision

John Siciliano · October 28, 2015 4:11 pm

Reid is retiring after this term, which has Yucca advocates both on and off Capitol Hill optimistic. (AP)

GOP nuclear-waste strategy emerges, but with a hitch

Zack Colman · May 22, 2015 9:00 am