By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — In an opinion expected to be widely disputed by both consumer groups and advocates of competitive energy marketplaces, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission’s legal staff has ruled that a major digital technology company must pay $27 million to cut its ties with NV Energy and produce […]
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By Elizabeth Shogren, High Country News As the West girds itself for what looks likely to be a fierce wildfire season, a bipartisan group of Western senators is pushing a bill to rethink the way the federal government pays to fight catastrophic fires. The idea is that the largest wildfires would be treated like natural […]
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By Kathryn Reed When you go swimming in Lake Tahoe you aren’t alone. Besides the fish that call this body of water home, so do a handful of aquatic mammals. Many of these critters are elusive and seldom seen. The work of some, like the beaver, is more apt to be visible than the actual animal. […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — The cost of complying with an Environmental Protection Agency audit that found failures by the Nevada Transportation Department in addressing storm water runoff issues is coming due at $10 million for 42 new agency positions, equipment and travel. Another $3 million will be spent on storm […]
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By Jack Healy, New York Times DENVER — Money was pouring into Bruce Nassau’s five Colorado marijuana shops when his accountant called with the bad news: The 2014 tax season was approaching, and Mr. Nassau could not rely on the galaxy of deductions that other businesses use to reduce their tax bills. He was going to […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – There is no one to do maintenance, mow the lawn or book events at Tahoe Paradise Park. This is because the board fired Steve Dunn, the park manager. “It was a personnel issue,” Sue Novasel, Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District chairwoman, told Lake Tahoe News. She would not go into […]
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By Kathryn Reed A contractor who did millions of dollars worth of work at Lake Tahoe Hard Rock is suing the owners for lack of payment. “There are a lot of good people out of a lot of money right now. We are fighting for all of them,” Joe Stewart with SMC Contracting told Lake […]
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By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO – A new Crystal Geyser Water Co. plant opening at the foot of Mount Shasta is adding to criticism of companies that are bottling water in California’s drought. Crystal Geyser plans to eventually tap up to 365,000 gallons a day from groundwater in Northern California’s Siskiyou County, the San Francisco […]
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By Kathryn Reed More than 270,000-square-feet of grass have been eliminated in the six years since South Tahoe Public Utility District has had the turf buyback program. This equates to a savings of approximately 3.5 million gallons of water. Last week the board agreed to put in $300,000 of district money into the program to […]
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By Rory Carroll, Reuters California environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks to halt oil industry injections of drilling wastewater into nearly 500 wells, a practice they say threatens fresh water supplies and is particularly critical in light of a prolonged drought. The lawsuit was filed in state court against California’s oil drilling […]
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