President Trump yesterday signaled his administration will reverse course and abandon the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — a move that could pay off politically in the ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The State of Nevada is reopening licensing proceedings for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in an effort to "end the failed project for good," Attorney General Aaron D ...

Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill that would repeal the law establishing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. The Jobs Not Waste Act would not ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Nevada has taken a new step toward permanently ending the long-stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository project. Attorney General Aaron Ford's office said Tuesday that the ...

LAS VEGAS — The legal team leading Nevada’s fight against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump outlined a theme, a strategy and the confidence Wednesday that they can block the project in the courts.

Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the country’s nuclear waste bin are at a standstill, but discussions of restarting the proposal have drawn concerns — and different opinions — from Nevada’s elected ...

Nevada’s quest to lose its reputation as a wasteland didn’t begin auspiciously in the new millennium. In fact, it looked as if the state was politically doomed to become the home for a nuclear waste ...

Nevada GOP Senate candidate Jeff Gunter hit primary rival Sam Brown on Tuesday over his previous comments showing openness to funding the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility. Brown’s comments have ...

The General Accounting Office (GAO) and Nevada state officials are mounting new challenges to the Bush administration’s plan to designate Yucca Mountain as permanent home for the nation’s spent ...

July 14, 2003 — A recent survey on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project shows that voters believe the region is increasingly on the wrong track but they are resigned to the idea that the project ...

Thanks to the diligence of Nevada state and congressional leaders, the state has rebuffed another attempt by the U.S. Department of Energy to stuff radioactive waste down our throats. This time around ...

LAS VEGAS — Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is reviving a push to block the creation of a national nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Cortez Masto, Nevada's other Democratic Sen.