Landmark Supreme Court rulings, controversial trade and nuclear weapons deals and a long-overdue rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law have dominated the headlines over the first half of a busy Washington summer. Beyond the glare of the national media spotlight, two New Mexico lawmakers have been working on legislation related to energy production — a subject central ...

NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois State University professor said at a renewable energy conference that the state has the potential to produce far more wind and solar power than it now does. David Loomis is an economics professor at Illinois State and director of its Center for Renewable Energy. According to WJBC radio, he said Thursday that A recent ...

POLLOCK, S.D. — A New York-based company that specializes in large-scale renewable energy projects says it’s building a 55-turbine wind farm in north central South Dakota. Consolidated Edison Development says it has already begun working on its new farm in Pollock. Officials say they the farm is located on property owned by a group of local farmers. The company says ...

COALTON — Plans are under way to develop a new, state-of-the-art clean energy facility at Big Run Landfill that will convert gas produced at the landfill into renewable natural gas, EnviroSolutions (ESI), owner of Big Run, according to a press release announced Tuesday. Enerdyne Power Systems, a company that specializes in utilizing landfill gas (LFG) as a renewable fuel source, ...

MADRID (Reuters) – Online store Amazon said it has contracted Spanish utility Iberdrola to build and manage a wind farm in North Carolina, United States, to power its current and future cloud data centers. Amazon affiliate Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Monday the wind farm would be operational by December of next year, putting it on track to surpass ...

On a vast tract of old North Carolina farmland, crews are getting ready to build something the South has never seen: a commercial-scale wind energy farm. The $600 million project by Spanish developer Iberdrola Renewables LLC will put 102 turbines on 22,000 acres near the coastal community of Elizabeth City, with plans to add about 50 more. Once up and ...

ROLETTE, N.D. — The North Dakota Public Service Commission is considering a proposed wind farm that would feature 59 turbines in the northern part of the state. Under its proposal, Rolette Power Development is seeking to generate about 100 megawatts of electricity on nearly 15,000 acres of land between Rolette and Rugby, KXMC-TV reported. The company is asking the commission ...

CARLSBAD — In a new study about states leading in clean energy development, New Mexico was recognized as a clean energy state, despite recent criticisms from the state’s attorney general. The new report, released Monday by the Clean Energy States Alliance, is called, “Clean Energy Champions: The Importance of State Programs and Policies.” The alliance is a nonprofit group with ...

NEW YORK — Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have teamed up in a bid to widen access to clean energy. The movie stars launched “100%,” a campaign aimed at making energy from renewable sources available to everyone — and making it affordable. DiCaprio has spent much of the last few years toward environmental and animal conservation efforts. At Thursday night’s ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Native American reservations could produce much more of the country’s solar and wind energy, but the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs largely has hindered energy development on tribal lands, the investigative arm of Congress has found. The BIA often has the final say in approving documents that would clear the way for solar, wind, oil, gas and ...