Yucca Mountain and Consolidated Storage Part of the Federal Shutdown Funding "Game"
(Thank you to Don Hancock of SRIC in NM for calling our attention to this news.)
As reported by George Cahlink, Geof Koss, Jeremy Dillon and Kellie Lunney, at E&E Daily:
House Energy-Water Appropriations Chairman Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) said last week that discussions continued with the Senate to send some funds to Yucca Mountain, the stalled nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
But Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the Senate Energy-Water Appropriations panel, said last week she is still pushing an interim nuclear waste storage plan in return for funding for Yucca
Mountain in fiscal 2019. "They want money for Yucca, but I think that's a problem," she told E&E News.
The prospect of Yucca funding in the spending bill has caught the attention of Nevada's Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Sen.-elect Jacky Rosen.
December 3, 2018