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FILE - This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. A fight is raging in courts and Congress over where radioactive materials should be stored and how to safely get the dangerous remnants of decades of bomb-making and power generation to a permanent resting place. (AP Photo/File)

Has tech made moving nukes safe enough? Depends whom you ask

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

In this Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at the California GOP fall convention in Indian Wells, Calif. Perry pushed Ukraine’s president earlier in 2019 to replace members of a key supervisory board at Naftogaz, a massive state-owned petroleum company. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Profit, not politics: What some Trump allies did in Ukraine

By Desmond Butler, Michael Biesecker and Richard Lardner - Associated Press

In this Aug. 21, 2019 photo, instructor Chris Powicki speaks during an interview at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable, Mass. Powicki's Offshore Wind 101 classes have drawn nuclear and marina workers, engineers, young people and others hoping for good-paying wind jobs as an alternative to tourism jobs. But as Trump has made clear how much he hates wind turbines, all the offshore wind projects, including the nation's first utility-scale offshore wind project, an 84 turbine, $2.8 billion wind farm slated to rise 15 miles off Martha's Vineyard, have stalled. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

President’s windmill hatred is a worry for booming industry

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER AND RODRIQUE NGOWI - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to a crowd of over 500 supporters at Elite Well Services in Artesia, NM. Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Pence linked the future prosperity of the U.S. energy sector to approval this year of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, (Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Pence steps up pressure for trade deal with Mexico, Canada

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 10, 2017, file photo provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, second from left, accompanied by Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, second from right, learns about capabilities at the Los Alamos laboratory's Plutonium Facility, from Jeff Yarbrough, right, Los Alamos Associate Director for Plutonium Science and Manufacturing, in Los Alamos, N.M. Secretary Perry once again visited a site where weapons-grade plutonium is stored, and low-level radioactive material was mistakenly sent for years. Perry confirmed his team gave Gov. Steve Sisolak classified and unclassified briefings during a tour of the Nevada National Security Site Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (Los Alamos National Laboratory via AP, File)

Energy secretary returns to Nevada nuke site in legal fight

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 14, 2018, file photo, a sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev. Nevada's governor and congressional delegation say recent earthquakes should make the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks at a site eyed as the place to bury the nation's nuclear waste, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada: Feds should restudy seismic risk at nuke dump site

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 14, 2018, file photo, a sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev. Nevada's governor and congressional delegation say recent earthquakes should make the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks at a site eyed as the place to bury the nation's nuclear waste, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada: Feds should restudy seismic risk at nuke dump site

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

This Nov. 30, 2006 file photo shows oil drills in Maracaibo Lake in Venezuela's oil rich Zulia state. The Trump administration needs to decide by July 27, 2019 whether or not to allow Chevron to keep operating in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch, File) **FILE**

Will Trump let Chevron stay in Venezuela?

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 10, 2017, file photo provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, second from left, accompanied by Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, second from right, learns about capabilities at the Los Alamos laboratory's Plutonium Facility, from Jeff Yarbrough, right, Los Alamos Associate Director for Plutonium Science and Manufacturing, in Los Alamos, N.M. A Nevada congressman called for U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s resignation Wednesday, July 10, 2019, after the department acknowledged dozens of shipments of low-level radioactive waste shipped to a site north of Las Vegas may have been mislabeled and out of compliance with safety regulations for years. (Los Alamos National Laboratory via AP, File)

US suspends low-level radioactive waste shipments to Nevada

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

US underground nuclear waste dump receives 12,500th shipment

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President Donald Trump says goodbye to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, at the West Wing of the White House, Thursday June 20, 2019, after their meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AP FACT CHECK: Obama is a silent partner in Trump’s boasts

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

President Donald Trump says goodbye to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, at the West Wing of the White House, Thursday June 20, 2019, after their meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AP FACT CHECK: The silent partner in Trump’s boasts

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, file photo, a flame burns at the Shell Deer Park oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas. An oil refinery planned by Meridian Energy Group in North Dakota neighboring the Theodore Roosevelt National Park has come under fire over environmental considerations, as well as scrutiny for unpaid work, the Associated Press reported on Jan. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) **FILE**

AP sources: US struck Iranian military computers this week

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

Nathan Baring, left, and Alex Lozano, two plaintiffs that are part of a lawsuit by a group of young people who say U.S. energy policies are causing climate change and hurting their future, speak during an interview, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, with The Associated Press in Portland, Ore. Baring, who was 15 when he joined the lawsuit in 2015 and is now 19, said Tuesday he's disappointed the government has thrown up legal obstacles to the trial commencing. &quot;I just think its just really disappointing to see the lengths that they go to, to not only not let us get the remedy that we're seeking, by letting us have a chance to present or case at trial.&quot; (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

The Latest: US energy policy hurts young people, lawyer says

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U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at an energy summit hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and attended by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Energy secretary: US aims to making fossil fuels cleaner

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

New Oak Ridge facility for computing, quantum information

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2013 file photo, radioactive waste, sealed in large stainless steel canisters, is stored under five feet of concrete in a storage building at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is pledging to expedite the removal of weapons-grade plutonium his agency secretly shipped to Nevada last year, beginning in 2021. Perry said in an April 24, 2019 letter to Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, made public on Tuesday, April 30, that DOE intends to complete the removal of one-half metric ton (1,102 pounds) of the highly radioactive material from Nevada by the end of 2026. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

Energy Department says it will remove plutonium from Nevada

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

1st baby bison born at Fermilab herd this spring

Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 20, 2013, file photo, seen through thick protective glass shows the area where workers sand-blast the large stainless steel tanks used in the vitrification process to rid them of contaminants at the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. The U.S. Energy Department is asking a federal judge in Reno to dismiss the state’s lawsuit challenging plutonium shipments to Nevada while an appeals court considers whether to overturn the judge's earlier refusal to grant the state’s request for a temporary injunction blocking the shipments from South Carolina. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

Feds seek dismissal of plutonium lawsuit; no quake concerns

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2013 file photo, seen through thick protective glass, shows the area where workers sand-blast the large stainless steel tanks used in the vitrification process to rid them of contaminants at the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. South Carolina says Nevada's demand for the U.S. government to remove weapons-grade plutonium that was secretly trucked between the two states last year contradicts its claim that moving the radioactive material is dangerous. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton,File)

South Carolina: Moving plutonium belies Nevada claim of risk

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press