The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a significant piece of legislation aimed at strengthening the nation\u2019s nuclear energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bill passed with a decisive 88-2 vote, with Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voting against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This nuclear-focused legislation was merged with another bill that reauthorizes the U.S. Fire Administration and grant programs for firefighters. According to The Hill<\/em>, the combined package is now set to be sent to the president for approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe gain more tools to address the climate crisis with the urgency it requires,\u201d Zaidi stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a significant piece of legislation aimed at strengthening the nation\u2019s nuclear energy sector. The bill passed with a decisive 88-2 vote, with Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voting against it. This nuclear-focused legislation was merged with another bill that reauthorizes the U.S. Fire Administration and grant programs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5794,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions\/5794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}