Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...California, for instance, a new nuclear plant can't even be licensed until the feds come up with a permanent solution. The Energy Department is scheduled to decide later this year whether to go ahead with the controversial proposal to bury the waste deep within Yucca Mountain in Nevada. But with the state's congressional delegation fiercely opposing the idea, the fight could easily drag on for years. If the site could be built, it would still be necessary to find a safe way to move all the fuel there without unduly imperiling the nation's crucial freight rails...
...Currently, voters in Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have approved the use of medical marijuana. Where does this leave those states in terms of law enforcement...
...drug sentences, some 700 drug courts have been created or are being planned by various states to shepherd narcotics abusers through treatment rather than prison. Utah and Oregon curtailed police powers to forfeit the assets of suspected drug users. Nine states have legalized medical marijuana, including Oregon, Maine and Nevada...
Connecticut $983 Georgia $912 Washington, D.C. $823 Arizona $714 Delaware $679 Michigan $609 Maryland $606 Nevada $596 Tennessee $560 Texas...
...handful of states, such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nevada and New Mexico, are so spooked by the chaos on the West Coast that, at least for the moment, they are pulling the plug on deregulation. "We're going to wait for the smoke to clear," says North Carolina state senator David Hoyle, co-chairman of the legislative commission that just delayed the planned deregulation...