DOE official says nuclear waste deal impossible with Yucca

After decades of delays and billions of dollars of taxpayer money, a Senate plan to solve the nuclear waste problem is on the table for discussion Early morning light shines on the proposed nuclear waste dump site of Yucca Mountain, Feb. 7, 2002. A ...

The Mountain Yucca, Yucca schottii, is a tough and hardy yucca for Tucson and Green Valley area landscaping. Able to withstand temperatures down to negative 20 degrees, you never have to worry about frost damage even when we

More than likely you've seen it, maybe even hundreds of times. For 10 years now, the giant polished aluminum sculpture of a yucca on the north side of Interstate 40 has greeted or surprised motorists driving into Albuquerque from the East Mountains, ...

SENATORS PUT OUT NUCLEAR WASTE LEGISLATION: A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a proposal to create a new government body to oversee nuclear waste in the first major bipartisan attempt to clean up the policy mess left after the Yucca Mountain ...

Halfway around the world from the Front Range and in a different hemisphere lie mountains with growing conditions similar to the Rockies. And the plant life of the Drakensberg (Afrikaans for Dragon Mountains), or uKhahlamba (Zulu for "Barrier of ...

PIPELINE PRESSURE MOUNTING: With a decision on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline looming, supporters and opponents are putting everything on the table, fighting tooth and nail for the public's — and the president's — attention. House ...

GREENS KEEP UP PROTESTS: Environmentalists and other liberal groups are continuing their push against Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama over Keystone XL and last week's budget vote that was widely seen as a symbolic approval of the ...

There could be a link between the Oval Office and the Organ Mountains, or so organizers of a proposed national monument in Dona Ana County hope. Monday, President Obama, through his ability to use the Antiquities Act, designated the Rio Grande Del ...

Elizabeth Lujan, 16, a student from Yucca Valley, works with Armed Services YMCA volunteers during the Section 33 cleanup in Joshua Tree on April 20, 2013. (Official USMC photo by Kelly O'Sullivan/Released) Story by:Kelly OSullivan TWENTYNINE PALMS, ...