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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday said the Senate would return for a "mopping up" session after the November election, and that he hoped to find support for a national renewable energy standard by year end. Reid, speaking at an alternative energy conference he hosts annually in Las Vegas, also said he had at least one ...

Some supporters wore green hard hats and waved signs Tuesday equating clean energy and green jobs as industry leaders, policy experts, investors and public officials began a national "summit" meeting in Las Vegas. About 40 people rallied outside the event at the University of Nevada, Las ...

A nonpartisan think tank Wednesday outlined an ambitious plan to boost renewable energy development in America and placed Nevada and the West in the center of it.The Brookings Institution proposes the federal government create and fund up to half a dozen "energy innovation centers" in the West to ...

Angle: Guinn the culprit in ' 03 tax hike, not SandovalOn the campaign trail, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has been trumpeting her appeal of a 2003 Nevada Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for the Legislature to pass a tax increase without the constitutionally mandated two-thirds vote.
In 2003, Angle was one of 15 Assembly members who temporarily blocked ...

In 19th-century America, the government awarded land grants to start what would become the transcontinental railroad and establish universities such as Rutgers and Michigan State.
Now, Brookings Mountain West, a research group, is calling for a similarly ambitious effort based on the model of land grants to shift the nation from fossil fuel to cleaner energy.
In a report to ...

Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of ...

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Electric utility Exelon Corp said it agreed to buy John Deere Renewables, the wind energy business of Deere & Co, for about $860 million to generate more power from renewable sources of energy. Exelon, the largest U.S. nuclear power operator, said the deal will add 735 operating megawatts (MW) of clean energy to its generation portfolio, plus an ...

Deere & Co. is selling its wind energy business to a subsidiary of Exelon for $900 million. The company said Tuesday that the sale of John Deere Renewables will allow it to focus on its core business of manufacturing farm equipment. Deere said in February it was ...

The West, particularly Nevada, would seem to be the perfect place to focus the nation's renewable energy effort given the wide open spaces and abundance of solar, wind and geothermal resources. But one of the difficulties developers have run into is that much of the land is federally owned and ...

Texas-based KiOR, a company with plans to produce a crude oil substitute from wood chips and other biomass, will locate its first three facilities in Mississippi. Gov. Haley Barbour and KiOR CEO Fred Cannon announced details of the venture Thursday, a day before lawmakers were set to ...