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It's the latest flashpoint in a decades-long battle to find a home for the nation's nuclear waste and it's being waged by unlikely allies and competing interests in the hamlets north of New York City in the shadow of Indian Point's nuclear reactors and in the oil and gas fields of New Mexico. In New Mexico, anti-nuclear groups and environmentalists have joined with the oil and gas industry in the Permian Basin to prevent Holtec from building an interim site midway between Carlsbad and Hobbs to store the nation's waste. And in New York, local officials eager to find new uses for the Indian Poi...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... A fabrication facility intended to support a nuclear waste storage facility proposed in southeast New Mexico would support at least 150 jobs in the region in addition to employment expected at the repository itself. Holtec International, a nuclear technology company based in New Jersey, hoped to build a temporary facility to store high-level spent nuclear fuel rods near the border of Eddy and Lea c...

Some law firms that took paycheck protection loans banked the money, consultant says   Image from Shutterstock.com. More than 600 law firms received forgivable loans of more than $2 million under the government’s Paycheck Protection Program. But the loans didn’t completely protect staff for at least 10 law firms, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters Legal. And some law firms ended up banking the money, rather than using it for payroll, according to a consultant who spoke with the publication. The 10 law firms received a combined $68.5 million in forgivable loans, yet they went on ...