Renewable Energy

Feds give wind farm a pass if turbine blades kill endangered condors

2013-05-24 11:42:00

Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los...

Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities

2013-05-21 13:39:00

WASHINGTON – Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey. In the survey, released Tuesday by Yale and George Mason universities, 70% of American adults say...

Afghan women's rights in peril, group says

2013-05-21 15:36:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50% in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women'...

A powerful use for spoiled food

2013-05-15 18:40:00

What happens to the 40% of food produced but never eaten in the U.S. each year, the mounds of perfect fruit passed over by grocery store shoppers, the tons of meat and milk left to expire? At Ralphs, one of the oldest and largest supermarket chains on...

For the record

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Proposition 13 loophole: An article in the May 5 Section A about a loophole in Proposition 13 thatenables businesses to sidestep a tax reassessment examined the purchase of a Santa Monica hotel company by Michael Dell and partners. The article said that...

Companies won't face charges in condor deaths

2013-05-10 20:10:00

Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors. In a decision swiftly condemned by conservationists...

Similar records, but L.A. mayoral candidates inhabit different worlds

2013-05-09 16:36:00

He owns a sleek home in the hills of Echo Park that was renovated with recycled materials, is powered partly by solar panels and was once featured in a top design magazine. She lives in a ranch-style house at the end of a Studio City cul-de-sac, with...

U.S. turns over troubled dam project to Afghanistan

2013-05-04 17:10:00

KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take...

Water war between Klamath River farmers, tribes poised to erupt

2013-05-07 00:00:00

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River's most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast....

Solar-powered plane completes first leg of cross-country journey

2013-05-04 15:15:00

The solar-powered aircraft�making a landmark cross-country flight�successfully completed its first leg early Saturday, and will rest about a week in Arizona before taking to the skies again. Solar Impulse HB-SIA�touched down about 12:30 a.m.�at Sky...

28 solar workers sickened by valley fever in San Luis Obispo County

2013-05-01 13:57:00

Epidemiologists are investigating an outbreak of valley fever that has sickened 28 workers at two large solar-power construction sites in San Luis Obispo County. Staff from the California Department of Public Health, and investigators from the...

SEC accuses city of Victorville, others of fraud in bond sale

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Ever since the Department of Defense shut down George Air Force Base in 1992, the high desert town of Victorville has struggled to reinvent itself. The city encouraged massive residential and retail development. It invested in two new power plants....

Staff of a solar power plant works on their solar panels in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on May 8, 2013. The EU executive on May 8 proposed heavy anti-dumping tariffs of around 47 percent on imports of Chinese solar panels, a European Union source said.

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Schematic of Combined Power's reflector field showing basin of non-potable water, completely. covering water-ballasted tubular reflector structures, reflective facets, and linear solar energy receiver.

2013-04-10 23:54:00

At San Diego State University's Center for Energy Sustainability in Brawley, Combined Power LLC is performing a demonstration of a renewable energy technology.

2013-04-10 23:23:00