clean energy

Top federal officials traveled to Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Thursday to announce a $20 million grant to the Hopi Nation for a solar power project and 12 miles of powerlines that will bring electricity to nearly 900 homes.

The projects will accelerate clean energy development on current and former mine lands in Arizona and four other states.

The deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy met Wednesday in Flagstaff with Navajo and Hopi leaders to discuss an unprecedented federal investment in solar energy for tribal homes.

A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda.

Vice President Kamala Harris and two cabinet secretaries celebrated the start of the construction of a new high-capacity power transmission line between Arizona and California.

Arizona’s utility regulators have rejected new rules that would have required most of the state’s electricity providers to get 100% of their power from…