Mongabay on MSN11d
Tribes turn to the U.N. as major wind project plans to cut through their lands in the U.S.
By Taylar Dawn Stagner Last week, a United States federal judge rejected a request from Indigenous nations to stop SunZia, a ...
Heartland4d
Offshore Wind Is Gearing up to Bulldoze the Ocean
Neither is cost. Next comes transmission, where we have “AN ACTION PLAN FOR OFFSHORE WIND TRANSMISSION DEVELOPMENT IN THE U.S ...
High Country News13d
Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizona wind project
Amy Juan is a member of the Tohono O’odham nation at the Arizona-Mexico border and brought the news of the federal court’s ruling to New York last week, telling attendees of the the United Nations ...
USA Today10d
NY created an agency to approve more wind, solar farms. An audit says it's too slow.
The state office created to speed the approval of large-scale wind and solar projects is moving too slowly, threatening New ...
The Cool Down on MSN2h
Government approves new variation of floating offshore wind farm project: 'This refined design is future-proof'
"This is a significant milestone for the project and the floating offshore wind sector." Government approves new variation of ...
justthenews3d
The intermittency of wind and solar power could be worse than originally thought, experts say
A 15-state region produced less than 10% of its potential 22 gigawatt wind output over an 82-hour period. For 42 hours ...
Marine Link11d
US Releases Offshore Wind Liftoff Report and Promises Funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released its latest report in the Pathways to Commercial Liftoff series, describing ...
E&E2h
Tribes ask 9th Circuit to stop work on Southwest transmission line
The Tohono O’odham Nation, San Carlos Apache Tribe and others are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene ...
E&E7d
Louisiana bill threatens wind-heavy transmission line
A long-planned transmission line that would link Texas’ wind-heavy grid to Mississippi — along with much of the Midwest — is ...
New study points to 'enormous' market for New Mexico, Western transmission projects
New Mexico is an "energy export" state, producing over seven times as much energy as it consumes, the study finds.
Wind, solar now provide one third of Minnesota’s electricity
Renewable sources like wind and solar accounted for one-third of Minnesota’s power generation in 2023, according to a new ...
Star Tribune10d
Minnesota DFL wants faster clean energy permits, but some are wary of shortcutting public input
Minnesota lawmakers have promised an effort to significantly cut red tape for wind, solar and transmission-line permits won't result in meaningfully less oversight or public involvement.