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Energy advocate: Emergency energy order reveals wind, solar power failure

  • By Tate Rosentreter | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order across 17 states directing the employment of unused backup generation to keep power during summer heat, and an energy industry advocate says the emergency points to the unreliability and failure of wind and solar power.

Trout Lake senior center proposal withdrawn
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Trout Lake senior center proposal withdrawn

  • By Rodger Nichols For Columbia Gorge News
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GOLDENDALE — A proposed Trout Lake senior center will not be built in that town’s Guler Park. Klickitat County Commission Chair Ron Ihrig said…

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Guilty plea is first in windmill bird kill

  • DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities.

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Study: Wind farms killed 67 eagles in 5 years

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Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists.