Killing Clean Energy Jobs
Nicolas Loris /
In a month of Congressional efforts to prop-up the stalling US job market, Nevada’s elected officials are fighting to make conditions worse in their state.
Steve Tetreault and Keith Rogers report in the Pahrump Valley Times that the Department of Energy has cut 500 of 600 workers from Yucca Mountain Project contractor USA Repository Services. Additionally, Sandia National Laboratories will soon reduce their staff working on the project.
How is it possible that Senator Harry Reid can be taken seriously on the issue of job creation across the country when he supports these layoffs in his own state? And how can anything the U.S. government says regarding nuclear energy be taken seriously when it can not fulfill its basic legal obligation as mandated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste.
There are two issues here. First regarding Harry Reid–