Nevada regulators have approved an NV Energy plan to build a natural gas-fired power plant they say will help address system reliability as weather grows more extreme and unpredictable across the region.
A federal judge on Monday ordered regulators to reexamine a state permit allowing Lithium Americas Corp.’s Thacker Pass mine to produce and store mining waste on more than a thousand acres of public land.
Battery-powered electric vehicles have dominated the debate over the future of green technology, but the White House is eyeing another clean fuel alternative based on the most abundant resource in the universe — hydrogen.
Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but rapidly receding reservoirs uncovering sunken boats and other debris lost in their depths decades ago give a clear view of the hard choices ahead.
Over the past two decades, the State of Nevada has filed multiple lawsuits against the federal government to end the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Ozone occurs naturally in the upper atmosphere, but when it's produced at the ground level it can worsen chronic respiratory conditions like asthma and damage the ability of cells to combat respiratory infections, according to the EPA.
