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The Missoulian: Measure looks to deter tiered energy rates for conservation efforts
Coalition staffer Diego Rivas is quoted in this article on a new bill in the Montana legislature that looks to specify that tiered or “inverted block” utility rates meant to promote energy conservation should only be allowed if they reflect the utility’s actual costs.
NPR Posts Positive Poll for Clean Energy in Northwest
Wind farm developers may be cheered by the results from a new public radio poll. It found broad support for wind energy among both urban and rural Northwest residents. The finding comes amidst nagging opposition to some new wind farms from upset neighbors. The opinion survey was a collaboration of the Northwest Health Foundation, the polling firm Davis, Hibbitts and Midghall and public radio stations across the Northwest.
ABC News: Judge rules lawsuit against Mont. coal lease can go on
A state judge on Monday gave environmentalists a green light to press forward with their challenge of Montana’s lease of 587 million tons of state-owned coal to a St. Louis company.
Read the full story at ABCNews.com
Boardman plan is good; now let's reach for better
Andrea Durbin, Executive Director of Coalition member Oregon Environmental Council has an opinion piece in The Oregonian on the plan to close the Boardman coal-fired power plant no later than the end of 2020.
Federal investigators probing finances of nuclear backers in Idaho
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday suspended trading of Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., stock out of concerns about stock sales practices, the viability of the company and its ability to build a nuclear reactor in Payette County, Idaho and how AEHI’s executives are compensated…
The Daily Astorian: Coal exports and tar sands extraction carry large environmental costs
Coal coming down the Columbia River for export to China and tar sands equipment heading upriver to Canada suggest that we are collaborating in our own destruction.
Read the full article online at The Daily Astorian.
The New York Times: Integrating Wind and Water Power, an Increasingly Tough Balancing Act
Coalition Senior Policy Associate Steve Weiss is quoted in today’s New York Times article on the challenges of using smart grid technology to balance the Northwest’s huge base of hydroelectric power with its fast-expanding collection of wind farms.
Read the full article at The New York Times
The Oregonian: Australian coal company wants to build coal-export terminal in Longview to ship to Asia
An Australian coal company wants to build a coal-export terminal at a private port in Longview, Wash., a move that would allow 5.7 million tons of U.S. coal exports to Asia each year just as environmental activists are trying to shut down coal-fired power plants in Washington and Oregon.
Read the full article online at The Oregonian.
The Oregonian: Charting Oregon's energy future beyond coal
Closing a coal plant is a big deal. Closing a large, modern coal plant like the one at Boardman is areally big deal. It hasn’t happened before in the Northwest — or arguably anywhere else in the United States. But today Oregon is close to an agreement to end coal burning at Boardman by no…
Coalition documents Obama’s ghoulish salmon plan
A coalition of fishing, business, and conservation organizations asked a federal judge today to declare President Obama’s Columbia and Snake river salmon recovery plan illegal…