by Snake River Alliance | Apr 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
The US nuclear weapons and power enterprise has harmed nuclear workers, the environment, and members of the public. That was true at the very dawn of the nuclear age and it is true today. The Alliance will be hosting an important documentary later this month. It...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Electric Utilities & PUC
Who’d have thought even a year ago that Idaho would fill a unique space that truly matters in the nation’s wrenching argument with itself over the use of coal to produce electricity? Yet here we are: Idaho has one foot planted in Coal Country, to the east, in places...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC
In a little-noticed move that has big potential to advance clean energy and strengthen the western power grid, Idaho Power has signed onto a California-based energy market that will better balance the needs of participating utilities across the West. Idaho Power...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 3, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Things are heating up over the future of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rules to clamp down on the kinds of dirty coal-fired power plants that provide up to 40 percent of Idaho’s electricity, so it was great news to learn Friday that the city of Boise and...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 18, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho House of Representatives, which apparently can’t bring itself to admitting that it goofed last year when it arbitrarily whacked owners of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles with an extra $75 registration fee to penalize them for driving cleaner cars, are still...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 18, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for the final two segments of the proposed Gateway West Transmission Line Project, which if built would be the nation’s largest transmission project....
