North Dakota landowners testified for and against a carbon capture company’s use of eminent domain. Some landowners said carbon companies should not be able to forcibly buy people's land. Others said carbon companies should be able to so they can serve an important public interest. ...Read moreNorth Dakota landowners at odds over carbon pipeline plans
Washington's new cap-and-trade program may be hitting farmers' wallets even though the law is supposed to shield agriculture from higher fuel costs. The Washington Farm Bureau said Wednesday that farmers are unknowingly paying cap-and-trade surcharges levied on fuel producers. ...Read moreWashington farmers dragged into cap-and-trade costs
Union Pacific’s fourth-quarter profit slipped 4% as severe winter weather snarled shipments in late December and disrupted the railroad’s efforts to eliminate the delayed deliveries and other problems shippers complained about last year. The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad said it earned $1.6… ...Read moreUnion Pacific profit slips 4% on weather, hiring problems, expenses
Federal regulators have rejected a request from the operator of California’s last nuclear power plant that could have smoothed its pathway to securing a longer operating life. The decision marks the latest skirmish in a long-running fight over the operation and safety of the decades-old Diab… ...Read moreRegulators nix proposal on California's last nuclear plant
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’ first small modular nuclear reactor. The advanced light-water small modular nuclear reactor is built by Oregon-based NuScale Power. ...Read moreFirst small modular nuclear reactor certified for use in U.S.
A new study says drenchings like those California has been getting since Christmas will only get wetter and nastier with climate change. Already more than 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow have fallen on California. But Thursday's new study says in a worst-case climate change scenario tha… ...Read moreWarming to make California downpours even wetter, study says
OLYMPIA — Washington’s climate ambitions rely heavily on undeveloped technology and other states. Washington eventually will have to import green energy to offset a coming ban on electricity from fossil fuels, Commerce Department energy policy manager Glenn Blackmon said. ...Read moreWashington needs outside help to meet green-energy law
Washington's cap-and-trade program, less than two weeks old, has reportedly already raised gas and diesel prices, as oil refineries and others face fees on carbon emissions. ...Read moreEcology, oil industry spar over early cap-and-trade fallout
Under House Bill 1216, introduced Jan. 10 at the governor's request, the Inslee administration would help select projects obtain permits, opening a new path for energy companies to build. ...Read moreInslee proposes speeding up green-energy projects
Washington will hold a cap-and-trade auction Feb. 28, the first of many expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars from businesses to fund state agencies, tribes and recipients of government grants and contracts. ...Read moreInslee celebrates coming cap-and-trade auctions
The Washington Department of Ecology has re-estimated the state's 1990 greenhouse gas emissions, improving the odds the state met its first carbon-reduction targets. Emissions totaled 93.5 million tons in 1990, according to a new greenhouse gas inventory by Ecology. Two years ago, Ecology es… ...Read moreCarbon output rises, but Washington moves closer to climate goal
A Florida company has asked the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to preempt Benton County’s ban on new solar plants and approve a power project on land zoned for agriculture. ...Read moreSolar company asks Inslee administration to override rural county's ban
Tribes adamantly oppose a pumped-storage hydro project in south-central Washington that otherwise got passing marks in a new report by the Washington Department of Ecology. ...Read moreWashington clean-energy project seen as threat to tribal resources
The Horse Heaven energy project in southeast Washington will have a “low” impact on agriculture, even though windmills and solar panels would take about 6,800 acres of farmland, according to a draft environmental impact statement. ...Read moreReport: Horse Heaven energy project impact on farming 'low'
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, outlining his climate agenda for the 2023 legislative session, said Dec. 12 he will propose “new ways” to push through energy-related projects more rapidly. ...Read moreInslee to propose 'new ways' to site energy projects
USDA believes the partnership projects will allow agriculture to figure out what works and what doesn’t. ...Read moreUSDA funds climate-smart projects for small-scale farms
Step by step, Washington state has adopted the main canons of the Green New Deal, a sweeping set of mandates aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. The state’s Democratic legislators and Gov. Jay Inslee’s administration hav… ...Read moreWashington's Green New Deal: Climate agenda generates many unanswered questions
The Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council on Monday brushed aside Yakima County's moratorium on solar projects. The council will continue to fast-track a California company's application to build solar plants on about 1,700 acres zoned for agriculture. ...Read moreYakima County solar moratorium eclipsed by state council
A BP-affiliated company has stepped away from helping craft a state carbon-storage plan that Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz said would be a blueprint for conserving timberlands to confront climate change. ...Read moreBP affiliate pulls back from Washington carbon forest plan
