Nevada is ranked No. 10 in the nation with 3.74 million square feet of LEED-certified green building completed in 2012, or 1.39 square feet per capita, the U.S. Green Building Council found.
Energy
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who carried out the Obama administration’s plan to shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project and oversaw the distribution of billions of dollars in loans to boost renewable energy, said Friday he will step down from the Cabinet post he’s held for four years.
The Department of Energy on Friday set a 2048 target to open a burial site for nuclear waste – a deadline 50 years later than originally planned.
The yearlong battle over smart meters has ended for good.
The Silver State is about to get fracked. Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. is pursuing plans to drill for oil and natural gas across a 40,000-acre swath of public and private land near the city of Wells, about 400 miles north of Las Vegas.
As he pumped regular gasoline Friday at $2.99 per gallon, a price seemingly consigned to nostalgia just three months ago, Carlos Lovato was working on a mental shopping list for his newfound pocket money.
A national trade group has anointed a Nevada power plant the country’s safest fossil fuel-powered generating station.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One of the National Security Administration’s three national laboratories is building regional testing centers around the country to field-test hardware for solar companies before their multimillion-dollar solar systems are installed in buildings.
Owner Jared Fisher has opened his new Las Vegas Cyclery shop in Summerlin. The 9,785-square-foot ultragreen bike shop opened this month as a power plant and a shrine to energy efficiency.
The average monthly NV Energy power bill will drop from $142.05 to $138.26 next year. The decline comes from a drop in the cost of natural gas to fuel the company’s power plants, as well as cuts in the rate that covers energy-efficiency programs and the lower sales that result from conservation.
Sociologists, environmental historians, historical preservationists and others came to Las Vegas from all over the nation Saturday to tell stories about how they preserved a sense of place.