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Boiling Point: Change change, the everything story
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Boiling Point: Change change, the everything story

LA Times  

A week ago Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. Project 2025 also calls for dismantling the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, some of the nation’s most reliable sources of weather and climate forecasts, The Times’ Hayley Smith reports — reflecting a dangerous attitude of “what you don’t know can’t hurt you.” If …

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Judge dismisses Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project in Arizona
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge dismisses Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project in Arizona

The Independent  

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Native American tribes want US appeals court to weigh in on $10B SunZia energy transmission project
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Native American tribes want US appeals court to weigh in on $10B SunZia energy transmission project

Associated Press  

Native American tribes and environmentalists want a U.S. appeals court to weigh in on their request to halt construction along part of a $10 billion transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as California. He called it too important of an issue, saying: “The United States’ renewable energy policy that includes destroying …

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US court rejects a request by tribes to block $10B energy transmission project in Arizona
8 months, 1 week ago

US court rejects a request by tribes to block $10B energy transmission project in Arizona

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by Native American tribes and environmentalists to stop work on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley that will carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as California. Interior Department and Bureau of Land Management of refusing for nearly …

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Column: The lithium revolution has arrived at California’s Salton Sea
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: The lithium revolution has arrived at California’s Salton Sea

LA Times  

Mud pots bubble outside EnergySource’s geothermal plant near the southern end of the Salton Sea. And unlike many other lithium mines, Controlled Thermal’s “Hell’s Kitchen” project — and others planned for the Salton Sea region — would do little environmental damage. With a groundbreaking ceremony on the docket for Hell’s Kitchen and one of the president’s top advisors planning to …

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One Southwest power project’s 17-year odyssey shows the hurdles to Biden’s climate agenda
11 months, 4 weeks ago

One Southwest power project’s 17-year odyssey shows the hurdles to Biden’s climate agenda

Politico  

It had been in the works for 16 years. “The government stepped up to make sure we got permits,” said Hunter Armistead, chief executive of Pattern Energy, SunZia’s San Francisco-based project developer. “It’s no one’s responsibility to break through.” ‘Call-up zone’ Over the years, as the calendar pages turned on the SunZia project, it became a symbol of the debilitating …

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Work resumes on $10B renewable energy transmission project despite tribal objections
1 year ago

Work resumes on $10B renewable energy transmission project despite tribal objections

Associated Press  

The tractors are back at work clearing land and building access roads for a $10 billion transmission line that the Biden administration describes as an important part of the nation’s transition to renewable energy. In Arizona, federal land managers briefly halted work this month along a 50-mile stretch of the line through the San Pedro Valley after the Tohono O’odham …

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Native American tribes fight US over a proposed $10B renewable energy transmission line
1 year, 1 month ago

Native American tribes fight US over a proposed $10B renewable energy transmission line

Associated Press  

Work on a $10 billion project that will funnel renewable energy across the West has come to a halt in southwestern Arizona, with Native American tribes saying the federal government has ignored concerns about effects that the SunZia transmission line will have on religious and cultural sites. Federal land managers temporarily suspended work on the SunZia transmission project along a …

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Powered by wind, this $10B transmission line will carry more energy than the Hoover Dam
1 year, 3 months ago

Powered by wind, this $10B transmission line will carry more energy than the Hoover Dam

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam is how Hunter Armistead describes the $10 billion venture his company will be overseeing during the next three years. As the chief executive of one of the world’s largest wind and solar development companies, Armistead said breaking ground on Pattern Energy’s SunZia transmission line marks a major milestone …

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US greenlights major transmission line for renewable energy in Western states
1 year, 7 months ago

US greenlights major transmission line for renewable energy in Western states

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. government is greenlighting a proposed multibillion-dollar transmission line that would send primarily wind-generated electricity from the rural plains of New Mexico to big cities in the West. New Mexico’s renewable energy authority is among those invested in the SunZia project, which would include roughly 520 miles of transmission lines and a network of substations for …

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