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Nevada’s Harry Reid, a lion of the U.S. Senate and a conservation champion, passes on

Har­ry Reid served thir­ty years in the Sen­ate. His biggest achieve­ment for his state was arguably killing the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy’s plans to use Yuc­ca Moun­tain as a repos­i­to­ry for “spent” but high­ly radioac­tive fuel rods from the nation’s nuclear pow­er plants — which he did almost single-handedly.