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    Rep. Katie Porter presses Biden team on Marshall Islands nuclear waste, gets few answers

    by Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times Oct 22, 2021 5 minutes

    For months, U.S. refusal to accept responsibility for a leaking dome of radioactive waste in the Marshall Islands has complicated negotiations with the Marshallese government on an international compact viewed as crucial for blunting Chinese influence in the central Pacific.

    On Thursday, members of a congressional oversight committee scolded representatives of the Biden administration for not making more progress on negotiations and taking the Marshallese position more seriously. During the hearing, administration officials offered conflicting statements on U.S. obligations to the Marshall Islands, making it unclear where the White House stands on America’s history in the region. In addition, the U.S. State Department declined to participate.

    “The point of the hearing today was to examine why the United States is not willing to discuss the nuclear legacy

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