energy

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Defense to lift its blockade of wind energy projects and resume the permitting process that has ground to a halt during President Donald Trump’s second term.

Nicolle Fugere writes, "They come because it's wild. They don't come for well pads and roads."

Members of the public and a coalition of advocacy groups want NorthWestern Energy’s long-term plan for power to include more renewable energy and account for data centers’ impacts on their pocketbooks.

Idaho would be required to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste if the state becomes one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses.

Calling it the start of a cleaner future, the city and county of Missoula on Monday night officially adopted an agreement with Northwestern Energy, setting the foundation for the state's first option to purchase green power from a new renewable energy source.

In the Silicon Forest region outside Portland, Oregon, a lawsuit over tax breaks is the latest front in a local war between data center developers and the public.

The Ratepayer Protection Pledge, first signed by the president in March, requires companies that build and use data centers to pay for any new infrastructure upgrades and generation resources that serve them.

The Lead Community Agreement outlines the roles and responsibilities of the program's three leading partners – the city and county of Missoula and the city of Bozeman – as they now prepare to bring the program to the Montana Public Service Commission for approval.

Critics say Nationwide Permit 12, which has already been used to authorize controversial oil and gas projects, cuts out crucial steps like informing the public and evaluating risks to species.

Trump has long been an opponent of wind power and has gone to great lengths to block the development of both offshore and onshore wind.