Imagine driving the equivalent of round trip to Denver or one way to Houston from Las Vegas on just one tank of gas. You may have to stop for other reasons, but it won’t be for fuel if you’re behind the wheel of a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid.
Energy
The Interior Department is directing more than $300 million in federal “economic stimulus” money to the Bureau of Land Management to update its facilities, roads and trails and jump-start renewable energy projects across the country, said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who performed like a trained seal here Saturday.
CARSON CITY — Officials from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission and state Energy Office raised concerns Tuesday over a proposal by state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford to put the energy agency under the PUC.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched a plan Saturday to spend $305 million for creating jobs on what he called the public lands’ “renewable energy frontier” to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil while at the same time restoring landscapes and wildlife habitat.
WASHINGTON — Bob Abbey, a former state director for the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, is in line to be nominated to head the BLM nationally, Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday.
Who knew serving as the nation’s chief labor-law enforcer could become such a gustatory whirlwind? … That’s what the job became on Thursday for U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on her first official visit to Las Vegas as labor secretary. While in town for the afternoon, Solis spent more than an hour at Nevada Partners and the Culinary Training Academy on Lake Mead Boulevard in west Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford found nothing but support on Earth Day for his bill to use federal stimulus money to create “green jobs” for the anticipated renewable energy economy in Nevada.
A program that will allow Clark County residents to swap gasoline-powered lawn mowers for electric ones is doubling in size this year, thanks to a $200,000 donation from NV Energy.
BrightSource Energy Inc., developer of large-scale solar thermal energy plants, recently announced that it has reached agreement on the principal terms of a private land contract with Nevada’s newest master-planned community developer, Coyote Springs Land Co. The agreement marks a critical step in the development of a solar thermal energy project that could provide as much as 600 megawatts of clean reliable solar thermal energy to both the Nevada and California markets.
For consumers, builders, manufacturers, municipalities, institutions and anyone interested in the green energy revolution, “The Green Energy Show” is now airing on Saturdays from 5-6 p.m. on KDWN 720 AM in Las Vegas and simulcast on KBZZ 1270 AM in Reno. The show is then replayed on KLAV on Thursdays from 7-8 p.m. and is archived on TheGreenEnergyShow.com for future viewing.
You’re not living off the grid, you don’t have a compost pile and the idea of recycling rainwater hasn’t even crossed your mind. Heck, you’re lucky to get your recycling to the curb each week.
Amid the current economic conditions, becoming energy efficient has never made more sense. When homeowners save energy they help to protect the environment and cut their monthly bills.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose regulating greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that these “pollutants” pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare, The Washington Post reported Friday.
You know the old saying: You have to spend money to make money.
