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The West’s largest green energy storage project would destroy a Yakama sacred site. Now, the nation is fighting back.

“We’ve got two of the largest reservoirs in the state of Washington, if not the whole Northwest, right here,” Fales said. “It’s the perfect setting for hydrogeneration.”

GOLDENDALE — An alternative energy project planned near Goldendale threatens a sacred Yakama Nation ceremonial site, according to Yakama leaders.

Researchers have successfully grown primitive eye structures on brain organoids that they had made in the lab.

With the era of building big dams over in the U.S., a growing number of existing dams are being modified to produce hydropower. These projects, advocates say, avoid the damaging impacts of new dams and could generate enough renewable electricity for several million homes.

/PRNewswire/ -- Rye Development (Rye) is pleased to announce that Jay Anders, P.E., has joined the company as the Chief Operations Officer with a primary focus...

Argonne leads creation of definitive valuation guide for pumped storage hydropower (Image by Shutterstock / Alberto Masnovo.) It is increasingly critical to properly value pumped storage hydropower as the prevalence and penetration of wind and solar energies grow in importance in the U.S. electrical power grid. Newswise — How do we catch the wind or hold a sunbeam in our hands? We don’t — but pumped storage hydropower is the quiet giant that does it for us. This commercially proven energ...

Argonne leads creation of definitive valuation guide for pumped storage hydropower (Image by Shutterstock / Alberto Masnovo.) It is increasingly critical to properly value pumped storage hydropower as the prevalence and penetration of wind and solar energies grow in importance in the U.S. electrical power grid. Newswise — How do we catch the wind or hold a sunbeam in our hands? We don’t — but pumped storage hydropower is the quiet giant that does it for us. This commercially proven energ...

AP Allegheny County plans to power its government buildings with a hydroelectric power plant starting in 2023, a move Joylette Portlock from Sustainable Pittsburgh applauds. On todays program: Sustainable Pittsburgh executive director Joylette Portlock explains a planned hydroelectric plant signals the county’s commitment to renewable energy; Struggling tenants and landlords are still waiting for millions of dollars in rent relief allocated for the state; and the Frick Art Museum looks at it...

ANNA KING/NW NEWS NETWORK Listen / Some 15,000 years ago, an ice dam broke in Montana. Water cascaded across the Northwest in some of the largest flooding ever to happen on Earth. And the Ka-milt-pah people climbed up to one of the highest points on the Columbia River. “There were lookouts and warnings to the Ka-milt-pah band members. Prior to the big flood, they escaped the canyon,” says Elaine Harvey, a Ka-milt-pah member, known in English as the Rock Creek Band of the Yakama ...