Energy and Climate Change

Boise-based memory chipmaker Micron Technology and the Sierra Club are among organizations that worry the coal plants aren’t shutting down fast enough.

As cooler temperatures and precipitation finally bring a hint of relief to smoke-weary Montanans, the unusual nature of summer 2017 is coming into focus and the influence of climate change is impossible to ignore.

Zhong’s invention is the sort of breakthrough — like the touch screen in smart phones — that helps to push an industry from one era to the next

"In addition to helping customers save by conserving during peak demand hours, this targeted energy efficiency approach can help better integrate renewable resources and delay the need for future infrastructure," the utility said in its announcement."

"I think it’ll be a beautiful building," Superintendent Rob Watson said. "I think the architects will do some nice things with the façade – some brick, some metal, some color. … I think it will be beautiful."

Solar industry leaders and other clean-energy advocates cut the compromise deal with the state’s largest utility in an effort to replace an earlier Rocky Mountain Power proposal. Advocates feared the plan to introduce a three-part billing structure for solar households had the potential to halt the industry’s growth.

PacifiCorp, and its subsidiary Rocky Mountain Power, would like to spend nearly $2.2 billion building new wind farms and laying 140 miles of a high voltage transmission line from the Medicine Bow area of wind alley to the Jim Bridger power plant in Sweetwater County. But they have to get approval, and not just from Wyoming.

The Park Service was not allowed to post anything about the tour on its Facebook page or social media accounts.

In "Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West," Ferguson deftly summarizes the grim situation we are all confronting. He explains the science of fires, the complicated mechanics of fighting them and what happens to the land in their wake.

"We have a huge issue in California in that Californians would like to keep all of the development and buy all of their power from within their borders,"