Yucca

Featured speaker at Monday's virtual Democratic luncheon will be Patrick Donnelly, Nevada State Director of the Center for Biological Diversity. Among other things he will touch on the hydrology and endangered species of the Amargosa Basin and explain why Yucca Mountain is a terrible place to store high-level nuclear waste.

CARSON CITY — Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak issued the following statement Sunday evening after President Trump signed into law the bipartisan appropriations and coronavirus relief deal reached by Congress last week, H.R. 133.

Each decade, Nevada grows by about two basketball courts. It’s hard to quantify, state geologist Jim Faulds says, but the comparison is about right.

President Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal 2021 budget doesn’t include any funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Released today, the budget includes language criticizing the political stalemate over the stalled project, which was defunded a decade ago. Yucca Mountain, ...

The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects will discuss its biennial report on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and recommendations to the governor and Legislature at 1 p.m. today at …

“The proponents of Yucca Mountain are asking the country to waste another five years and $2 billion on a project that is now obsolete and was unworkable to begin with."

Bob Halstead talked with the Sun to break down some of the issues with the repository, including potential seismic activity, rail access and potential effects to groundwater ...

Nevada leaders have long pushed back against the development of a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Yet officials in Nye County have been much more willing …

Federal legislation creating a consent-based process for bringing nuclear waste repositories online in the United States may be amended to include the restrictions for the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, according …

A proposed Senate bill requiring local and state consent for a nuclear waste repository excludes Nevada’s Yucca Mountain site from the process. The Nuclear Waste ...

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders reiterated his opposition to storing the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, saying the site is not …

Nevada lawmakers helped beat back the latest effort to restart the licensing process necessary to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas. Democratic Rep. Dina Titus says ...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released an online video decrying the proposed nuclear-waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain as an ...

Beto O’Rourke, who was propelled into the national spotlight in 2018 when he nearly pulled off an upset in his campaign for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Texas Republican Ted Cruz, sat down last month with the Sun …

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is one of six presidential candidates who have signed onto legislation from Nevada's two senators that would block the waste from being stored in the state. Nevada has long fought the effort to store the waste about 100 miles from Las Vegas ...

Nevada's long crusade to block the creation of a national nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain has pitted the state against ...

Gov. Steve Sisolak said he is against a U.S. Senate bill that would advance the implementation of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The bill — the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019 — is sponsored by ...

CARSON CITY — Leaders from 13 Nevada tribes have sent letters to President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry protesting the federal government’s shipment of a half metric ton of weapons-grade plutonium to the Nevada National Security Site without informing state government officials or the tribes.

At The Greenhouse Project (TGP) today, I saw a note on the board, “Plant Clones.”

I asked Cory, the TGP manager, about that. He wanted to plant cuttings of a particularly tasty tomato he and the AmeriCorps interns had rooted in water, trying to reproduce it asexually.

Recently, we explained why U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh is probably the best person President Donald Trump could have picked for the upcoming Supreme Court opening.

We noted his outstanding record as a lawyer and appellate judge and reviewed his glowing recommendations from legal scholars and colleagues. He’s a good and decent man with outstanding credentials and judicial temperament.

Did you know that approximately one out of every three bites of food you eat depends on the work of a "pollinator?” Bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and hummingbirds are keystone pollinator species in Nevada, supporting healthy wildlands, ecosystem diversity, and a nutritious food supply.

I’ve said it before: Tuesdays are pretty busy around Carson City. Mile High Jazz Band gets the night jumping at Comma Coffee. The Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz and DJ Trivia are always a good way to stretch one’s intellect. Take a walk on the wild side, well, art side of Carson City with today’s special Easy Walk hosted by Muscle Powered: you’ll get a glimpse of all our downtown art show, including the newest exhibit at the Courthouse Gallery showcasing Susanne Forestieri . Keep reading, and you’ll be impressed with Tuesday, too.

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Sierra Nevada Forums will host a presentation Tuesday, Yucca Mountain 101, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 West King Street in Carson City.

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval issued the following statement Wednesday in response to United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s opening remarks in front of the Senate Energy & Water Subcommittee.

The State of Nevada’s legal fight against Yucca Mountain took an important step forward this week, with the filing of a motion to dismiss a State of Texas lawsuit that threatens to undercut Nevada’s opposition to the Yucca Mountain repository.

Here is the 2017 State of the State presented by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.

Sen. Dean Heller says the nation needs a program to dispose of and store nuclear fuel and radioactive waste but Yucca Mountain isn’t the answer.In a letter to House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee ch ...

With the retirement of Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Mark Amodei says he sees another push to open Yucca Mountain on the horizon.In an interview during last week’s congressional recess, he said Ill ...

The Churchill County High School Advanced Placement Chemistry class presented its community survey of the Yucca Mountain Oversight Project to the Churchill County Commissioners at Thursday’ ...

Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., said on Tuesday he fully expects legislation reviving the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump project to be passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.“It’ll get 400 votes in t...