energy

China's billions of dollars in global investments and infrastructure projects seem to be paying off politically and economically.

The U.S. Department of Energy has opened a short public-comment window on an experimental nuclear technology in Idaho.

A group of Western Slope lawmakers are asking the Biden administration to put the brakes on a rail project in the Uinta Basin.

Colorado's average gas price has declined over the last week, as prices nationally have also gone down.

Thousands of lives are cut short every year because of air pollution from coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and across the United States, according to a new Sierra Club report.

Like Nevada, New Mexico has rejected a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis directed state health and energy agencies to work together to reduce ozone pollution by focusing on regulating the oil and gas industry.

For more than six decades, Alaska's North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight.

A trio of federal lawmakers from Arizona has joined forces to push bipartisan legislation they say would keep energy costs in line while maintaining supply reserves during peak times of season. 

(Oregon News Service)A film premiering this week tackles the potential harms of the nuclear industry. 

Portland State University professor emeritus Jan Haaken directed the documentary "Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance." 

The film draws on historical lessons from the campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Rainier, Oregon. The plant closed in 1992.