Energy
The Boulder City Council has agreed to lease the last 884 acres out of about 8,000 acres set aside for solar energy development. Korean Western Power, or KOWEPO, prevailed over five other companies to get the lease.
The small town of Boulder City can claim big-time bragging rights when it comes to producing renewable energy.
Leading the nation will do that for a community.
A blue ribbon panel that examined the nation’s sputtering efforts to manage nuclear waste — including the long impasse over Yucca Mountain — recommended Thursday that the government use more carrots than sticks to find new burial ground for the deadliest radioactive material.
