AUSTIN — A site in West Texas owned by Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons could store low-level radioactive waste from dozens of states under a measure the House approved Tuesday.
Waste Control Specialists, which runs the dump in Andrews County, would control rates of out-of-state waste contributions except for those from Texas and Vermont, which have an agreement for waste storage.
Mulvaney: http://dallasne.ws/ileHRt
Showing posts with label nuclear waste disposal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear waste disposal. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tea Party, Green groups find common cause
The old saw "Politics makes for strange bedfellows" was in evidence today as apparently unlikely allies--environmental and consumer groups and the Tea Party, represented by former GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Merdina--spoke out against legislation that would allow nuclear waste from all over the country to be shipped to a West Texas disposal site.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Strange bedfellows: The greens and the tea party
Maybe it's a green tea party.
Former GOP governor's candidate Debra Medina is joining environmentalists in conducting a series of press conferences around the state protesting Waste Control Specialists plan to import low-level radioactive waste from 36 states to their site in Texas.
Hoppe: http://dallasne.ws/f7b0mo
Former GOP governor's candidate Debra Medina is joining environmentalists in conducting a series of press conferences around the state protesting Waste Control Specialists plan to import low-level radioactive waste from 36 states to their site in Texas.
Hoppe: http://dallasne.ws/f7b0mo
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