Small modular reactors appear to be cost-competitive compared to other energy sources in the Pacific Northwest, according to a joint PNNL-MIT study.

A Wash. Supreme Court hearing provided a practice run for possible upcoming court battles over Gov. Inslee’s partial vetoes of recently passed climate bills.

Puget Sound Energy signed an agreement with a proposed Montana wind power project to obtain 350 MW of wind energy.

An Oregon designer of small modular reactors has linked up with a venture to build four small reactors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. NuScale Power of Portland, Ore., on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Grant County Public Utility District to see if its small modular...

Washington legislators have earmarked slightly more than $4 million to build the state’s first two hydrogen vehicle refueling stations. However, many details of those first stations — in East Wenatchee and Chehalis — still need to be addressed. Neither will likely be built until 2022, and the appropriations won’t be...

Legislative leaders from his own party slammed Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s Monday veto of segments of recently passed cap-and-trade and low-carbon fuels standard (LCFS) bills, threatening a legal challenge. The partial vetoes focused on removing segments of the two bills that tied both efforts to the future passage of a transportation...

A Vancouver, Canada, plant expected to go online late next year will convert human waste into a biocrude dry sludge that will eventually be turned into biofuels. The Metro Vancouver Regional District — a regional government of Vancouver and 20 surrounding communities — has been working on the plant for...

Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday vetoed one section of a bill that will require Washington to map out the growth of electric vehicles in the state, along with predicted infrastructure needs. The vetoed section of House Bill 1287 called for the state to implement a fee or tax based on...

The renewable resources required to address climate change are themselves increasingly subject to the impacts of global warming, and the result could spell the need for a much bigger buildout than expected to meet mitigation goals, researchers have found. "Climate change’s effects on renewables is a new area of study.