As the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was being debated in Congress, Honor the Earth, the Indigo Girls and a number of other musicians went on the road in 1997 to stir up awareness of the proposal to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a Western Shoshone sacred site. For almost a month, artists and activists toured the northeastern and southeastern United States giving concerts and speaking at press conferences. Dubbed “Mobile Chernobyl,” the Nuclear Waste Policy Act would allow nuclear waste to be shipped by train and truck and would pass within a half mile of millions of Americans on its way to the proposed disposal site. Moreover, the site itself is geologically unstable and groundwater may become polluted. As part of this campaign concert-goers signed more than 15,000 cards, which were sent to President Clinton asking him to veto this proposal. He vetoed the bill early the next year, but in 2002 Yucca Mountain was approved for nuclear waste storage.