More than 450 people have signed a petition asking Belleville officials to halt their plans to clear-cut woods behind Mount Hope Cemetery to make way for a community solar farm. Opponents are ...

Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers have joined an animal abuse investigation that began when a neighbor reported a foul odor coming from an apartment in Walla Walla County ...

Stark Solar sought to construct a 150-megawatt solar farm on 860 acres in southwest Washington Township. Its application was denied by a state board in April. The company had the option to appeal ...

Erick Bengel is a Murrow News Fellow at the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin whose beat focuses on rural civic affairs. He can be reached at [email protected] or 509-526-8313.

Not offering the mobile option in Walla Walla, at its 921 W. Cherry St. location, and instead focusing on coordinating community food needs will save the Blue Mountain Action Council money.

Solar farms are seen as a way to increase energy capacity from non-polluting source. But their expansion into rural areas sparked a dispute in the state Senate.

WILTON, Calif. — A proposed 2,700-acre solar farm in eastern Sacramento County gets the green light to continue its plans of becoming a reality. However, it ignited a fierce debate among ...

When grass was allowed to grow long on solar farms, it appeared to encourage birds. Joshua Copping What’s more, our previous research has shown that the UK has enough land to deploy 90 GW of ...

The U.S. solar industry is currently installing approximately 15,000 modules per hour which is laughable when industry experts are saying it needs to reach a staggering 50,000 modules per hour by ...

The height of the grass inside the Walla Solar Farm. Picture by James Wiltshire Mrs Schultz, however, said the fire would have been far worse had the wind been stronger.

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Environment Oregon approves state’s largest solar farm on 10,000 acres of farmland Updated: Dec. 06, 2024, 11:19 a.m. | Published: Dec. 05, 2024, 4:07 p.m.