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Jonathan F. Stringer, 24, of Chehalis, was identified Monday as the man who died last week in a trench collapse, according to the Lewis County Coroner. The trench work was tied to the construction of the Skookumchuck Wind Farm, a 38-turbine project that is largely in Lewis County. The cause of death was mechanical asphyxiation; the manner of death was accidental, according to the coroner. A second worker was trapped in the collapse, which happened about 11 a.m. Thursday, but . . .

Iowa’s largest farm group is calling for statewide regulations that guide where large-scale wind and solar farms can be built, as members raise concerns about the loss of valuable farmland to renewable energy projects. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation says it backs statewide “siting and setback rules for wind and solar farms,” given the rapid growth of wind and solar energy projects in Iowa. The legislative priority could pit the politically powerful ag group against formidable energy companies, including investor-owned MidAmerican . . .

New Democratic governors were sworn into office in three Great Lakes states almost exactly a year ago, each promising action on climate and clean energy. The election of J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Tony Evers of Wisconsin was seen by environmental advocates as a ray of hope for Democrats and environmental advocates at a time when President Trump was busy reversing Obama-era climate actions. So far, none of the new Midwest Democrats has delivered on bold . . .

Chinese OEM Goldwind has sold a 49% stake in a 527MW Australian wind project to Qatari power investment company and sector newcomer, Nebras Power.

New York will issue a second solicitation for offshore wind projects this year, governor Andrew Cuomo said in a recent "state of the state" speech.

Generators in Andhra Pradesh are finally receiving some of the payments for power from their wind projects after months of deadlock with the local government.

Evaporation can explain why water levels drop in a full swimming pool, but it also plays an important role in industrial processes ranging from cooling electronics to power generation. Researchers now have reported a discovery that answers some fundamental questions about the process, which until now had remained a mystery.

Engineers have developed a method to produce aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels. The technique may help to speed up the manufacturing of airplanes and other large, high-performance composite structures, such as blades for wind turbines.

Canadian owner-operator Brookfield Renewables has launched a takeover bid for TerraForm Power, proposing to buy all the outstanding shares in the clean energy developer.

CUMBERLAND – The citizen’s group opposing the Dans Mountain wind farm project has rescheduled a public meeting on the case for Tuesday at City Place in Frostburg. The meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at City Place in Frostburg, will be hosted by representatives from Allegany Neighbors and Citizens for Home Owners Rights Limited, who oppose the Dans Mountain Wind Force plan to install 17 wind turbines atop the mountain. Darlene Park, ANCHOR president, said the meeting was scheduled after a Jan. . . .

POTTSVILLE – Schuylkill County is progressing in preparing new regulations for installing wind turbines, but are not yet ready to unveil the specifics that will comprise the curative amendment to the zoning ordinance, officials said Wednesday. “Once it’s completed, we have to send it to the planning commission,” Assistant County Solicitor Glenn Roth said after Wednesday’s commissioners meeting, during which an activist urged them to complete the work without delay. Virginia L. Morton, Porter Twp., said county officials need to make . . .

FARMERSVILLE – The Farmersville Town Board will conduct public hearings on two local laws tonight at 7 o’clock, including a 2020 Wind Energy Facilities Local Law. The 56-page local law was introduced at an emergency meeting last Monday after the town board voted 3-2 to void the town’s 2019 wind law, which included a 600-foot wind turbine tip height and 1.3 times tip height, or 900 feet to a property line. The other local law introduced last Monday, the Drinking Water . . .

Here’s an open letter to Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and her party’s energy critic, Ian Arthurs. Ian, Andrea, I have talked to NDP MPPs as well as sending multiple information updates to your party pointing out the gaps, omissions, negative implications of the Nation Rise Wind project, other Ontario IWT projects and worldwide IWT updates. Now, following the revoking of the Nation Rise Wind project license, Ian, you are quoted as stating that the decision is “not supported by . . .

Congressional Democrats are eyeing a legislative response to the Trump administration’s proposed National Environmental Policy Act overhaul, a sign of the fight to come over one of the president’s marquee deregulatory moves. Several lawmakers said yesterday that a Congressional Review Act resolution would eventually be on the table after the Council on Environmental Quality proposed to update its NEPA regulations for the first time in decades. For Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), the proposal is personal. Her late husband, the legendary . . .

President Trump announced plans today for overhauling rules surrounding the nation’s bedrock environmental law, and administration officials refuted claims they were downplaying greenhouse gas emissions. The president, during remarks at the White House with supporters and Cabinet officials, said he wanted to fix the nation’s “regulatory nightmare” through new guidelines for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act. “America is a nation of builders,” he said. But it takes too long to get a permit, and that’s “big government at its . . .

A major fishing group has asked the US government to designate six transit lanes off New England in areas slated for wind development.

Ørsted and Equinor will lead a new group aiming to represent the opportunities offered by offshore wind and other ocean-based renewable energy sources in climate change discussions.

A remote corner of Claremont currently visited mostly by deer and snowmobilers may one day be home to a colony of wind turbines. A Maryland company that builds and manages natural gas and wind turbine power plants has entered into a long-term agreement to lease about 800 acres on Green Mountain, near the border with Newport, with an eye toward building and operating a wind-power farm. The lease agreement signed in December between property owners James D. Smith III and . . .

Community leaders are to tell national planning chiefs that proposals for two huge new windfarms off Suffolk will have “significant impacts” on tourism, roads and people. While East Suffolk Council is in favour in principle of the energy projects, it is has strong concerns over a number of aspects of the work – which will involve cable channels across the countryside from Thorpeness to Friston, where a large substation will be created. Meanwhile, Suffolk County Council is preparing to give . . .

In the hills around Rapelje, where jackrabbits far outnumber people, there’s a renewable energy powerhouse in the making. Wind farms, four of them in various stages of development, promise to deliver up to 480 megawatts of capacity just as planned coal power plant retirements in Montana are escalating. There are 80 megawatts of generation spinning at Stillwater Wind, and four projects of similar size on a slow walk through the regulatory process of Montana’s Public Service Commission. A little further . . .