House and Senate Set for More Yucca Headbutting in Final 2019 Budget Negotiations

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For the second year in a row, the House and Senate have set up a showdown over whether to fund the Donald Trump administration’s request to license a permanent nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
The Senate on Monday passed a so-called minibus…

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