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N. Nevada prison's power lies in wood piles

Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007

Brush cleared from the Lake Tahoe Basin and lumber scraps from construction, once bound for landfills, will instead fuel a new power plant at a state prison south of Carson City.

Somebody should watchdog, but who?

Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007

Government, that great creator of process, a champion of dotting its i's and crossing its t's, can appear awkward when trying to follow its own rules.

Faster than sound, on the ground

Friday, Aug. 31, 2007

Steve Fossett has never seen a record he wouldn't like to break. Solo non stop a round - the - world flight record? Check. Round-the-world sailing record? Piece of cake. Shave 24 hours off the record for duplicating Christopher Columbus' trans-Atlantic trip to America? Yep.

Faster than sound, on the ground Chris Morris / Las Vegas Sun

Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007

Nevada could host the next world speed record

'Clean' coal sounds prettier than it smells

Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007

When does something dirty become clean?

In LV, Edwards turns up heat on global warming

Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007

Sen. John Edwards picked a sizzling spot Wednesday to outline his plan to reverse global warming.

Insiders see solar energy industry as ready for takeoff

Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007

Amateur scientists with inventions to harness the sun, earth and wind and make the lights come on poured out of the woodwork when , in 1997, Nevada ordered its electric company to buy renewable energy .

OF LIMITED UTILITY

Monday, Aug. 13, 2007

We're guessing you don't know what a "consolidated annual deferred energy account adjustment" is. So, you and most of Southwest Gas Corp.'s 642,000 Nevada customers probably didn't read the notice that landed in your mail box the other day.

Will anyone see the (solar) light?

Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007

Even as a wave of green washes over America, as Al Gore wins an Oscar and Congress talks climate change, the sun gets so little respect.

Don't rush to add coal plant, EPA warns

Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007

The Environmental Protection Agency is questioning whether Nevada is shouldering too much of the burden of generating power for the Southwest.

Developer thinks outside the wooden box

Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007

Strong enough to withstand a hurricane. Sturdy enough to last through a wildfire. And energy efficient enough to cut your electric bill by 80 percent.

Reid has plan to leave coal in the dust

Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007

In the week since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would do everything he could to block three proposed coal-fired power plants in Nevada, this much can be said:

A lot less for the landfill

Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007

Order a foot-tall vase from a posh retailer and the delivery package is more likely to be the size of an armchair or an armoire than a petite piece of plaster.

New bank aimed at giving back

Saturday, July 28, 2007

A new bank is being formed by a group of gaming industry executives and other business leaders, including Brian Greenspun, chairman of The Greenspun Corporation.

Rare butterfly struggles, flutters higher

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Fears that the Mount Charleston blue butterfly was extinct have been extinguished after hikers snapped photos of the rare insect chilling at high elevations.

Springing back to life

Sunday, June 10, 2007

The gentle splash of water flowing over desert rock can be heard again at Las Vegas Springs, now a man-made homage to what was once a natural desert oasis.

Flawed ad: Hands off historic artifacts

Saturday, May 26, 2007

An otherwise innocuous commercial for a Clark County housing development sends the ill-advised message that it's OK to pocket historical artifacts such as arrowheads, conservationists and archaeologists worry.

Pollution-free park plea

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Pollution-free park plea

Businesses confident state's aversion to tax will hold up

Thursday, April 26, 2007

If Chancellor Jim Rogers thought Nevada's business community would stand beside him in supporting corporate and personal state income taxes, he's probably feeling a little lonely right now.

Nellis to put the sun to work by 2008

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Nellis Air Force Base will break ground Monday on a solar power project that is expected by this time next year to generate more than a quarter of the base's electricity needs - enough power to serve 11,000 Las Vegas homes.

TOWN FIRED UP

Sunday, April 1, 2007

To David Sims, the desert valley outside this sleepy Northern Nevada town seems the perfect place for a power plant. There are water, train tracks to carry coal, only one nearby ranch and no pesky bogs or rough terrain to get in the way of construction.

And it's close enough to civilization to make it an attractive place for workers to settle, but not so close as to rile the neighbors.

Quick rebound for housing

Monday, Jan. 8, 2007

Southern Nevada's slumping residential real estate market will start recovering by year's end even as other markets nationwide continue to struggle, a local economist predicts.