Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security rehashed the costly problem this week, but did not define any real solutions. The United States still has no plan for permanently storing more than 94,000 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants, despite a 1998 deadline that required the federal Department of
The deadline to have a facility expired in 1998. The United States still has no plan for permanently storing more than 94,000 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants, despite a 1998 deadline that required the federal Department of Energy (DOE) to have a facility available to accept the waste.
The court appeared skeptical of claims the ban amounts to unconstitutional discrimination. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over the nation’s first ban on gender transition procedures for minors on April 11. Arkansas is appealing a lower court’s ruling striking down its Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act as unconstitutional. The law
‘Justice for this incident should have been served quickly,’ Elise Stefanik writes in letter to Ivy League school Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, others attack Israeli student (Screenshot) The Harvard University graduate students who accosted an Israeli classmate are negotiating with prosecutors over a court date and may face criminal charges, though the school has yet to take
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he and his fellow House Democrats are not planning to provide House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with enough votes to advance a vote on government surveillance authorities, which might help the Republican leader overcome an impasse on the matter. For months, lawmakers have deliberated whether to
The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday gave many elite American universities failing grades on their campus climate of anti-Semitism. The ADL’s Campus Anti-Semitism Report Card shows an “F” grade was handed to two Ivy League universities—Harvard University and Princeton University—along with other elite schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of
However, the House minority leader said this is an ‘observation’ not a ‘declaration,’ as there would need to be a conversation before deciding how to proceed. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested on April 11 that Democrats would come to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) rescue were there to be a motion to strip