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Bill aims to spend billions to fix nation’s aging dams

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BOSTON — Lawmakers in Congress on Friday introduced a bill that would pump tens of billions of dollars into fixing and upgrading the country’s...

Albania holds 1st wind power tender to diversify energy base

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TIRANA, Albania — Albania launched a tender Monday for its first onshore wind power program, trying to diversify its water-based energy production. ...

Plan to raze 4 dams on California-Oregon line clears hurdle

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday, setting the stage...

Drought ravages California’s reservoirs ahead of hot summer

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OROVILLE, Calif. — Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and...

Germany, Norway flip switch on $2.4B undersea energy link

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BERLIN — Germany and Norway inaugurated a new undersea cable Thursday that directly links the two countries' electricity networks, a project that has been...

Tiny bats put kibosh on power line tree-cutting for 2 months

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PORTLAND, Maine — Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a power line in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it...

Clean megaprojects divide surprise group: environmentalists

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PORTLAND, Maine — Sprawling wind farms located off the coast. Hydropower transmission lines that cut through some of America's most beloved forests and rivers....

Kosovar biologist calls newly found insect after coronavirus

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PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovar biologist Halil Ibrahimi believes the pandemic restrictions haven't all been bad — as a result of them, he completed his...

US West prepares for possible 1st water shortage declaration

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CARSON CITY, Nev. — The man-made lakes that store water supplying millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico are projected to shrink...

Congressman hopes politics align on divisive Northwest dams

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Nearly two decades ago, Republican President George W. Bush stood on a bank of the Snake River near Pasco, Washington, and...