Cortez Masto knocks Yucca Mountain nuclear effort
push to include Yucca Mountain in the nation’s nuclear waste plan.
But Cortez Masto said that, besides the lack of infrastructure at the location, the project will be tied up in federal lawsuits for years.
“There are currently four federal lawsuits the state of Nevada has pending to prevent Yucca Mountain,” Cortez Masto told the gath- ering of business leaders. She filed those lawsuits when she was Nevada’s attorney general.
The discovery process alone would take two to three years, Cortez Masto added.
The comments from Cortez Masto came on a trip back to Nevada during her first recess from Congress.
The freshman senator also talked
In another move of political advocacy for Nevada, Planned Parenthood and affiliated groups met in a town hall-style event Thursday night at the Clark County Library.
The event was a protest of U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s policies and his support of President Donald Trump. Speakers voiced concerns about the environment, public education, health care and immigration, among other issues.
Many complained that their voices weren’t being heard by Heller, and organizers asked them to tweet him using the hashtag #WheresHeller?
But Neal Patel, the Republican senator’s communications director, questioned the organizers’ motives.
“The organizers of this town hall had no intention of Senator Heller attending and are intentionally misleading Nevadans,” Patel said in an emailed statement. “The invitation to the town hall came late in the afternoon on the previous day. This is a ridiculous attempt by the organizers to try and discredit the Senator.”
Heller attended a similar town hall event that took place Wednesday in Carson City. about the need to ensure that Nevada’s aging dams, as well as funding for Interstate 11, are included in Trump’s promised infrastructure plan.
Before the luncheon, Cortez Masto spoke to clean-energy advocates about the need for Nevada to be a leader in clean energies, especially in the solar field. Contact Colton Lochhead at clochhead@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-4638. Follow @ColtonLochhead onTwitter.