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A group of environmental and economic democracy activists charges that utilities are targeting Latino politicians to restrict access to rooftop solar despite the fact that most California Latinos support more solar. And the groups are using satire as a...
The new zone is California's third. All told, that means the Interior department has declared 164,391 acres of the California Desert as Solar Energy Zones.
How powerful is Big Ag on Capitol Hill? The Congressional Vegetarian Caucus would be glad to tell you.
Pattern Energy, a wind and transmission company with two major projects in California, is planning to go public. But do the numbers work out?
A 33-megawatt geothermal plant proposed for a spot along Route 395 near Mammoth Lakes cleared a hurdle this week, as two federal agencies signed off on the project. The project must still win approval from a regional air quality board.
A solar developer has just backed out of agreements to sell power from two solar facilities near Twentynine Palms that have been stalled by San Bernardino' County's solar moratorium.
A southern California wildlife biologist sentenced today for handling eagles without a license may have performed similar tasks for wind power companies while he was unlicensed, ReWire has learned. John David Bittner, who runs the Ramona-based Wildlife...
California just broke another solar power record this week: for the first time in its history, more than 2,500 megawatts of electricity from the sun flowed into the state's power distribution grid. And that's not even counting juice from small rooftop ...
In this urban, seemingly over-paved environment, hummingbirds are an indicator species.
A small community of Paiute Indians who for decades have lived in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant used to pump water through California aqueducts is suing to force the plant's owners to clean up the toxic mess left behind, and they've got some p...
A new study of annual CO(2) cycles in the Northern Hemisphere suggests that the Earth's climate may be destabilizing in ways we hadn't anticipated.
A new study of residential rooftop solar in the U.S. ranks California as the best place in the country for people who want to solarize their houses.