"To ensure that in this new administration, we base our public policies on the soundest science; that we appoint scientific advisers based on their credentials and experience, not their politics or ideology; and that we are open and honest with the American people about the science behind our decisions."
But now he has canceled the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository in Nevada, on which over $8 billion has already been spent, and which the best scientists agree is perfectly safe (I happen to know some of the people who have done those studies). Moreover, there is now no alternative place to store all the nuclear waste we have been accumulating from our nuclear power plants.
And why has he canceled the project? Not because scientists think it would be unsafe or unsuitable, but because Harry Reid, the powerful Democratic Senate majority leader from Nevada, opposes it (not in my back yard). So much for his promise not to let politics trump science.
I’m increasingly disappointed in this president. Apparently my hope was a little too audacious.
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