Re-Submitted DOE Nominees Advance in Senate
ECA Staff | 3/7/2019
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved four Department of Energy (DOE) nominees today. The four nominees were re-submitted to the committee after their nominations expired at the end of the 115th Congress.
Later this month, the full Senate is expected to vote on the confirmations of the following:
- Rita Baranwal, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
- Christopher Fall, Director of the Office of Science
- William Cooper, DOE General Counsel
- Lane Genatowski, Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy at the Department of Energy (ARPA-E)
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Nevada lawmakers take steps to block Yucca Mountain
Las Vegas Review-Journal | 3/5/2019
Nevada lawmakers will fire the first shot Tuesday in the expected legislative battle over Yucca Mountain in the new Congress.
The state’s representatives and senators said Monday they are filing bills in the House and Senate that would require states, local governments and tribes to consent to housing a nuclear waste repository before the federal government could build a storage facility.
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