CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted Thursday for a measure that would help promote plug-in hybrid cars by letting them use car pool highway lanes even if only one person is in the vehicle.
Energy
Boulder City will soon house North America’s largest sun-powered energy plant.
President Barack Obama has been shockingly upfront about his heavy-handed plans to govern energy production across the country from Washington, D.C. His plan is known as cap-and-trade, but it amounts to a new national energy tax that will be detrimental to consumers’ pocketbooks at the worst possible time.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Nevada Energy Star Partners a 2009 Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of its continued leadership in protecting our environment through energy efficiency. Their accomplishments were recognized at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. March 31.
Underlying Barack Obama’s support for bailing out the U.S. auto industry has always been the notion that federal bureaucrats and environmentalists know better than Detroit executives what kind of cars should be on the market.
CARSON CITY — A key Senate panel voted Thursday to keep alive a solar-energy tax break measure after being told the abatements will help bring solar projects to Nevada rather than to other solar-rich states such as California and Arizona.
It’s unusual that a decade-old nameplate could be called “iconic,” but the Toyota Prius has rightfully earned this distinction.
Back in the ’60s, Bob Dylan sang “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” At the time, I don’t think he had renewable energy on his mind, but wind energy is certainly a large part of the answer to today’s energy puzzle.
CARSON CITY — Proposals dealing with hybrid cars, energy-efficiency standards and solar power were among green energy bills endorsed Tuesday by a key Nevada Senate committee.
May “you live in interesting times.” Many assume this saying is an ancient Chinese curse, or blessing, depending on how you look at it.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday on bills aimed at reducing energy use in state buildings and further examining Hoover Dam as a hydropower source.
CARSON CITY — Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons drew a largely negative response from legislators Tuesday when he urged them to reduce taxes to induce renewable energy companies to build facilities in Nevada.
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