U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo) is calling for an extension of the renewable energy production tax credit, joining U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) in introducing a bill to keep the credit through 2016.
The wind energy industry employs about 3,000 people in Iowa More…
Xcel Energy officials late this afternoon expressed disappointment over Boulder’s move to create its own municipal electric utility, continuing to cast doubt on the city’s cost projections.
But backers of the so-called municipalization that would oust Xcel – the state’s largest utility — were buoyed by Tuesday’s narrow victory that More…
Late last week, an amendment proposed by Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D), of New Mexico’s third district, attempting to alter a deal between the U.S. government and a major mining firm was voted down. Luján had been seeking to tweak the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009, More…
Marathon Petroleum Co. has announced that it will offer to buy more than 300 homes near the southwest Detroit refinery that is being upgraded to process more Canadian tar sands oil.
Black Hills Power, a South Dakota utility with offices in Denver, filed papers Tuesday to shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and build a new natural gas-powered plant in Cheyenne – the first of its kind in the coal-dominated state.
An independent review of Colorado’s oil and gas drilling regulations pertaining to hydraulic fracturing was released late last week, with at least one conservation group finding it noteworthy for what isn’t in the report.
In the run-up to last month’s Senate vote that likely denied the USDA the right to limit potatoes in school lunches, U.S. Sen. Al Franken and eight other Democratic senators from potato-growing regions pushed hard on the federal agency.
The Colorado Independent’s story Monday on the Koch brothers influence in environmental politics has gone viral in a radio version produced by Kathleen Ryan for Public News Service.
According to a press release, the grants will go toward designing “creative solutions to sustainability challenges in the More…
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