Climate Changed
Democrats Seize on Trump’s Remarks About Nevada’s Yucca Nuclear Dump
- Rick Perry says White House still supports Yucca Mountain
- ‘The president has lied to the people of Nevada,’ senator says
President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 2017.
Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Getty Images
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Nevada Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to follow through on his new-found opposition to the construction of a nuclear waste dump outside of Las Vegas, after his top energy official said the administration still supports the Yucca Mountain project.
“It’s time for the president to keep his promise,” Senator Catherine Cortez Masto said in a statement. She added that Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s remarks Friday that he planned to move forward with the nuclear waste repository “show that the president has lied to the people of Nevada.”