Sally Pearson won the women’s 100-meter hurdles in Olympic-record time Tuesday night. She is the current world champion from Australia who was raised by a single mother who worked two jobs to help pay for such athletic endeavors.
If oil and gas companies receive federal subsidies, so should renewable energy projects, said wind, geothermal and solar power supporters at Tuesday’s fifth-annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.
Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday called for less politics and more cooperation between private enterprise and government to develop clean energy, despite the higher cost.
A standoff that briefly closed Hoover Dam on Tuesday afternoon ended peacefully when a man surrendered to police after driving through a security checkpoint.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took a break from stumping for renewable energy at Tuesday’s National Clean Energy Summit to slam NV Energy for keeping its Reid Gardner coal-fired plant open 50 miles outside of Las Vegas.
