A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities contribute to climate change. At issue are the greenhouse gases emitted by drilling machinery and ...

A controversial coal-fired power plant was supposed to be under construction near Mesquite by now. Sithe Global Power planned to have the Toquop Energy Project generating relatively cheap electricity by 2013 so it could sell the power wholesale to Nevada and other Southwest states. But the site remains empty, and many Mesquite officials, who havent heard from Sithe in months ...

With all the recent hullabaloo over Clark County employeesÕ salaries — including the $200,000 average in salary, overtime and benefits for firefighters — you might be surprised to know how many county workers moonlight to make extra money. Their outside work came into question last week when a firefighterÕs funeral home, La Paloma, won the right to be included in the ...

The Obama administration on Monday gave preliminary approval for $1.4 billion in federal loan guarantees for a sprawling solar-energy project in California's Mojave Desert. The offer from the U.S. Energy Department for Oakland-based BrightSource Energy would support the construction of three ...