U.S. government lawyers say Nevada continues to intentionally misrepresent the facts in an ongoing legal battle over the Energy Department's shipment of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas.
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Nevada says the U.S. Energy Department is engaged in a “secret plutonium smuggling operation” that threatens Nevada's health, safety and environment.
Energy Department lawyers want the case thrown out of court.
President Trump says he is nominating a deputy to Energy Secretary Rick Perry to replace him in the top job at the Energy Department.
Nevada Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen have sent a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry saying how outraged they are at the Department of Energy for shipping plutonium without notifying the state first.
Lawyers for the state of Nevada are in a federal courtroom seeking an injunction that would at least temporarily prohibit the U.S. Energy Department from shipping weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a security site north of Las Vegas.
Congress has approved a $147 billion package to fund the Energy Department, veterans' programs and the legislative branch. The bill now goes to President Trump.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says a hole that developed in the top of a nuclear waste storage tunnel in Washington state has been filled.
The Senate has confirmed former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to serve as energy secretary under President Donald Trump. The vote was 62-37 on Thursday.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to lead the Energy Department. That's according to two people with knowledge of the decision.