Renewable Energy
Holiday lights lost their glow? You have new options for recycling old strands
By Nicholas Gerbis | Monday, Dec. 31, 2018
The City of Phoenix and some companies are offering new options for recycling holiday lights. Recyclers recover valuable copper and glass from the light strings.
Move over, single-use plastics: Arizona company makes Earth-friendly replacements
By Bryce Newberry | Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018
An Arizona company is working to get rid of all single-use plastics in grocery stores. This year the Gilbert-based company, Footprint, started producing paper straws, and has plans to expand overseas.
Coloradans reject setback restrictions on new oil and gas development
By Colorado Public Radio staff | Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018
A new standard would have required that oil and gas drilling be set back half a mile from homes and businesses
Renewable energy proposition defeated in Arizona
By Rachel Carlton | Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018
Advocates wanted to increase the renewable energy goal from 15 percent to 50 percent
Renewable energy proposition electrifies supporters and opponents
By Rachel Charlton | Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018
40 million dollars has been spent on both sides
LA program would let renters plug into the benefits, good karma of solar
By Emily Guerin | Monday, Oct. 22, 2018
That's about to change in Los Angeles
Questions about Navajo Generating Station’s future lead to more protests
By Alexis Egeland | Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018
The Arizona plant is set to shut down next year, unless a buyer can be found.
Tribally owned solar power plant beats skeptics, set to expand on Navajo Nation
By Sarabeth Henne | Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018
There had been about 18,000 homes on the Navajo Nation without electricity.