Energy
A done deal just got even more done.
The public comment period on impacts of a wind farm planned near a migratory bat roost in White Pine County will end Wednesday.
At night in one of the darkest places on Earth it’s hard to see, and impossible to count, the hundreds of thousands of bats that boil out of Rose Cave after sunset.
The hard work that’s gone into proposing a new national park to protect Ice Age fossils and rare plants in northwest Las Vegas might be erased if more power lines are allowed to cross the park area, backers of the park said Thursday.
Green, the catchall eco-conscious term, increasingly means greenbacks for businesses. Companies are eagerly climbing aboard the sustainability bandwagon, as record unemployment, sluggish job growth and frozen credit markets sap business.
Sure, Nevada’s practically all desert, but in one area, the Silver State claims some of the greenest pastures on Earth. For green-energy potential, few places beat Nevada.
