When the Bureau of Land Management released results of the 2009 Nevada geothermal energy land lease auction in mid-August, it looked like the industryÕs balloon had burst. A year ago Nevada was hailed as the geothermal energy production heir apparent to its champion neighbor, California. The ...

When it comes to finding a place to build a solar power plant, what a difference a few miles can make. The latest solar plant plan for Amargosa Valley looks more popular with area residents than previous pitches because its farther out of town. And for that same reason, it is likely to be opposed by ...

A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities contribute to climate change. At issue are the greenhouse gases emitted by drilling machinery and ...

A controversial coal-fired power plant was supposed to be under construction near Mesquite by now. Sithe Global Power planned to have the Toquop Energy Project generating relatively cheap electricity by 2013 so it could sell the power wholesale to Nevada and other Southwest states. But the site remains empty, and many Mesquite officials, who havent heard from Sithe in months ...