Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, about the project during Wright’s ...

One of Nevada's U.S. senators pressed President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary on the future of the ...

Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain ...

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Senator Jacky Rosen, both Democrats from Nevada, have reintroduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act, aiming to pre ...

U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto have reintroduced a bill to prevent the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the ...

Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...

Sens. Catherin Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) last week reintroduced a bill to prohibit the Department of Energy from siting a ...

Nevada’s Democratic U.S. senators and representatives in Congress reintroduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act on Wednesday, gearing up for possible renewed efforts to put a nuclear ...

“Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s nominee to ...