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twitterAbraham asked to recuse himself
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002 | 9:38 a.m.
Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, is urging Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to recuse himself from a decision on a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain because the secretary has taken campaign contributions from the nuclear industry.
Abraham is expected to recommend Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as the nation's high-level nuclear waste repository.
From 1995 through Sept. 30 records show Abraham accepted $82,728 from nuclear interests, according to an analysis by Public Citizen's Congress Watch.
Federal Election Commission data show that in 1999-2000 Abraham received $9,000 from Florida Power and Light, $5,000 each from Southern Company and DTE Energy, and $3,000 from PECO, now Exelon, as well as $4,000 from the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry's lobbying association.
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