Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• City foresees energy district

  March 17, 2011 in Business on Page A10 The potential for an energy-based development district around the Waste-to-Energy Plant could be compromised if the facility is not reclassified as an alternative-energy provider, Spokane officials said Wednesday. Mayor Mary … 5

• Campaign ad boasts of Otter’s energy focus

  September 26, 2010 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s latest campaign commercial focuses on alternative energy, touting Idaho’s moves in that direction. But the Otter campaign could not document Otter’s claim in the …

• Wind farm outside Ellensburg OK’d

  February 4, 2010 in News A new wind farm near Ellensburg has won gubernatorial approval.

• Solar, wind power hub planned

  October 14, 2009 in Business on Page A12 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Officials announced an ambitious project in New Mexico on Tuesday that would allow energy to flow more freely across the nation’s three massive power grids, breaking down …

• House tests hydrogen power

  September 29, 2009 in Business on Page A6 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The elevated floor, tall ceilings, steeply pitched roof and broad overhangs are borrowed from the traditional “cracker house” that relied on shade and air movement for relief …

• Wind power may not be so abundant, study warns

  June 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming …

• Wind farms’ impact on sage grouse part of stimulus study

  June 1, 2009 in City on Page A12 BEND, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management is using some stimulus money to study the effect of wind farms on a dwindling sage grouse population in Central Oregon. BLM …

• U.S. wind turbine industry seeing green after ’08

  April 15, 2009 in Business on Page A10 WASHINGTON – Manufacturing of wind turbine parts in the United States grew last year as the market for wind energy boomed, but trade figures show that imports continued at a …

• Heating, cooling systems going geothermal

  January 18, 2009 in Features on Page D3 When it’s very hot or cold outside, your house has to work hard to make that air the perfect temperature for indoors. But if it were 55 degrees year-round, heating … 1

• Milfoil may be fuel source

  September 24, 2008 in City on Page A1 Ask boaters, dock owners, swimmers or scientists and you’re likely to get the same answer: Eurasian milfoil is a good-for-nothing pest. Since the mid-1970s, the feathery water plant has spread …