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• College’s wind technology program fills good-paying jobs

  December 12, 2011 in City on Page A1 Second of two parts Wheat is the most common export commodity in Washington’s Garfield County, where Matt Powell spent his childhood. But soon the county of 2,266 people will have … 8

• Wind energy innovations use new shapes, places for turbines

  July 28, 2011 in Business on Page A10 LOS ANGELES – Wind turbines are getting really big – some with blades as long as a football field – and more powerful, often generating 50 times more electricity than …

• On a quest for renewable energy

  March 26, 2011 in City on Page A1 Wind turbines are sprouting in parts of the state, their giant stalks and slowly churning blades rendering futuristic landscapes. To supporters of a law that required utilities to use more … 46

• NW today: Megaloads foes abandon legal fight

  January 28, 2011 in Region The opposition to megaloads Thursday abandoned its legal fight to prevent ConocoPhillips from shipping four megaloads on U.S. Highway 12 to a Billings, Mont., refinery.

• Biologists go to bat for mysterious helpers

  November 28, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C14 Bats are out of sight and out of mind for the winter. Hoary bats have made their break to winter in Mexico or thereabouts.

• 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 …

• 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 …