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Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time Feds won't press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time Feds won't press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents Scientists accused of falsifying quality-assurance documents for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste site in Nevada will not be charged by federal prosecutors. Emails between U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists from 1998 to 2000 indicate that dates were inve ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

And You Were Worried! Expert panel backs Energy Department nuke-waste transport plan		10 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
And You Were Worried! Expert panel backs Energy Department nuke-waste transport plan An expert panel organized by the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that it's likely safe to ship tens of thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel to Nevada for disposal. After all, what could go wrong? [Spends a moment in terrified contemplation.] The panel reviewed the Department of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, National Academy of Sciences, Nevada, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Nuke Rest for the Wary Lawmakers slash funding for Yucca Mountain nuke dump		09 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Nuke Rest for the Wary Lawmakers slash funding for Yucca Mountain nuke dump In a season of setbacks for President Bush, Congress delivered yet another this week, cutting funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump well below the amount requested by the White House. House and Senate negotiators working on a funding bill for energy and water projects allotted $450 million for Yucca Mountain i ...
Topics: Nevada, news, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Green acres, and acres, and acres ... Massive planned Vegas complex claims to be sustainable	Todd Hymas Samkara	20 Sep 2005	Gristmill
If you're going to build a gigantically humongous casino/hotel/condo/shopping center megaplex in the middle of Las Vegas, you may as well do it green ... or as green as a project of this size could be in the middle of the desert during a drought. Brought to you by MGM Mirage, the 18-million-square-foot, $5 billion project will reportedly seek an unspecified level of LEED certification and, The Globe and Mail reports, will be bigger than Times Square, Soho, and R ...
Topics: green building, Nevada (all these topics)

One Meeellion Years Feds create million-year health standard for Yucca Mountain dump		10 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
One Meeellion Years Feds create million-year health standard for Yucca Mountain dump The U.S. government has no plan for getting out of Iraq, balancing the budget, or repairing a hemorrhaging health-care system, but nuclear waste? It's got that covered for the next million years. Yes, responding to a 2004 federal court ruling that the previous standard of 10 millennia was insufficient, the U.S. EP ...
Topics: environmental planning, Nevada, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Two Paths Diverged in the Desert ... Battle between coal and renewables plays out in Nevada		11 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Two Paths Diverged in the Desert ... Battle between coal and renewables plays out in Nevada A drama in the small Nevada town of Gerlach is a harbinger of things to come for communities around the U.S. On one side is Sempra Energy, which wants to build a coal-fired power plant that would generate enough energy for 1.5 million households and pipe it west to California and up to the Pacific Northwest. On the oth ...
Topics: coal, energy, Nevada, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science		17 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science The use of fabricated sources in a study about the safety of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump -- revealed in a series of emails between scientists -- has Energy and Interior Department officials scrambling to investigate. The U.S. Geological Survey study was critical to the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry Sen. Harry Reid, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, knows full-well that his home state of Nevada isn't a liberal or environmental stronghold. Thus he has had to balance his party's political agenda with his state's economic interests, and one of those big interests is mining. Reid has repeat ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole 'Yucca is a necessity' thing		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole "Yucca is a necessity" thing Nuclear advocates have long insisted that the planned nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is necessary before new nuclear reactors can be built, because on-site storage of waste is just too dangerous. But with Yucca's prospects (at least in the short term) looking dim, and the prospects for new ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Character Actors Environment serving as a measure of character in presidential race	Amanda Griscom	16 Sep 2004	Muckraker
At a time when the man commonly derided by greens as the worst environmental president in U.S. history is up for reelection, it's perplexing that the most publicly discussed environmental issue of the campaign right now is Yucca Mountain -- a molehill in the grand scheme of America's environmental problems. Yucca Mountain. Photo: WhiteHouse.gov Of course, dumping nuclear waste in thi ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, Nevada, politics (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine Agencies Fight Over Trust Fund to Protect Groundwater from Nevada Mine		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Nevada, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine EPA and BLM fight over how to protect groundwater from massive Nevada mine	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In an age when corporate America can't see past its quarterly results, it's hard to imagine how the world's largest gold producer is going to manage the environmental damage caused by one of its mines hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. Future site of the Phoenix mine. Photo: Lighthawk, Great Basin Mine Watch. That's the challenge Newmont Mining Corp. faces as ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining, Muckraker, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Yucca Will Leaka Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Beset With Problems		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Yucca Will Leaka Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Beset With Problems The perpetually beleaguered nuclear waste dump being constructed at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is coming under fire again, from several directions. Yesterday, Paul Craig, who recently resigned from the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to make his concerns public, stated flatly that the Department of Energy's current design for Yucca ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

The Thinners Have Much More Fun Forest Service to Triple Sierra Nevada Logging		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Thinners Have Much More Fun Forest Service to Triple Sierra Nevada Logging Citing the need to prevent catastrophic forest fires like the ones that plagued Southern California last year, on Thursday the U.S. Forest Service announced a plan to spend $50 million a year to thin forests in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The plan would allow logging of 330 million board-feet of g ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nevada Appeals to Federal Court to Stymie Nuke Waste Site		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nevada Appeals to Federal Court to Stymie Nuke Waste Site Nevada is digging in its heels and promising a bitter fight to keep the nation's high-level nuclear waste from being shipped to an underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Last year, President Bush signed a bill designating the site as a permanent nuclear-waste repository, but next month ...
Topics: health, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Nuclear Waste By Any Other Name... Energy Department Wants to Redefine Nuclear Waste		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nuclear Waste By Any Other Name... Energy Department Wants to Redefine Nuclear Waste The U.S. Department of Energy is asking Congress for the power to redefine some nuclear waste to allow it to be left where it is or disposed of at low-level radioactive waste sites instead of buried deep underground. The waste in question consists of tens of millions of gallons of salts and sludg ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Geiger Counter Energy Department Seeks Rule Change on N-Waste Disposal		21 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Geiger Counter Energy Department Seeks Rule Change on N-Waste Disposal Offshore oil drilling is one area where the Bush administration is trying to rewrite the rules; radioactive waste disposal is another. A month ago, a federal judge ordered the Department of Energy to remove 85 million gallons of liquid nuclear waste from sites in Idaho, South Carolina, and Washing ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment	Amanda Griscom	03 Apr 2003	Powers That Be
It's a long-held tenet of U.S. environmentalists that nuclear power is bad news. Critics argue that the clean-air benefits of nuclear reactors are far outweighed by the consequences of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage -- not to mention the damage that could result from an accident at an atomic power station. Now more than ever, with growing concern about terrorist at ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom, United States, West (all these topics)

Sierras Clubbed		07 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sierras Clubbed Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 inches in diameter in old-growth fores ...
Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Owl's Not Well		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Owl's Not Well In a blow to environmentalists, the California spotted owl has been denied protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. According to the U.S. Fish and Wild Service, there is not enough evidence that the owl's habitat is sufficiently threatened to merit listing -- even though the agency acknowledged that a U.S. Forest Service plan to increase lo ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

The Bye Sierras		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Bye Sierras The management of California's public forests will change radically if U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Jack Blackwell gets his way. This week, Blackwell proposed allowing timber companies to cut more medium-sized trees from 11 million acres of forestlands in the Sierra Nevadas. The Sierras were heavily logged throughout the 1980s, destroying crucial habitat for s ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Nevada Protest Site		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Nevada Protest Site Sixty-six environmental justice activists, hailing from a broad range of states, were arrested early this week in Nevada after demonstrating over the weekend against nuclear energy and weapons. The protesters, including individuals from South Carolina, Washington, and Mississippi, blamed nuclear facilities for high rates of cancer, birth defects, and skin disorders in bla ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Viva Las Vegas		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Viva Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nev., the desert-turned-oasis of slot machines, plastic pyramids, and indoor waterfalls, is now undergoing a new kind of metamorphosis: A former 10-mile-long sewage gully is being transformed into a wetlands park that will be one of the largest swaths of locally preserved land in the nation. For 25 years, the Las Vegas "Wash" was an eroded channel draining 150 million gallons ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Nevada, wetlands (all these topics)

Luck Ran Out		23 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Luck Ran Out Nevada has run out of funding to continue its birth-defects registry, a loss that supporters say couldn't have come at a worse time. The registry, which was begun three years ago with a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, identifies trends in birth defects across the state in order to help identify and eliminate the causes of ...
Topics: Centers on Disease Control and Prevention, health, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Gambling on the Courts		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Gambling on the Courts Armed with $4 million, the state of Nevada is preparing for the legal battle of a lifetime: the effort to keep the federal government from establishing a high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Charles Cooper, one member of the high-profile legal team retained by the state, said yesterday that he was "very encouraged" about Nevada's prosp ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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