2024

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. land managers Thursday said they’ve given final permission for a 416-mile transmission line that would connect wind farms in eastern Wyoming with customers in Utah and elsewhere across the West. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said it has notified Portland-based PacifiCorp it can proceed with its Energy Gateway South Transmission line . It will run from the Medicine Bow, Wyoming area, across northwestern Colorado and end near Mona, Utah, south of Salt Lake City. The Biden administration has promoted renewable energy in the West but delivering that power to customers will require major upgrades to the nation’s aging electrical grid. RELATED 125-Mile Stretch Of Xcel Transmission Lines Completed, Energized (2020) File photo, (credit: Steve Hockstein/Bloomberg/iStock/Getty Images) Gateway South is part of a broader plan by PacifiCorps to install roughly 2,000 miles of new transmission lines across the West. RELATED Xcel Energy … [Read more...] about Utility Gets Nod To Build 416-Mile Power Line Across Wyoming, Colorado, Utah

close Video Mike Pence on call for gun control: ‘Guns are not responsible for these heinous crimes’ Former Vice President Mike Pence discusses the Uvalde school shooting at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women luncheon. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! BEDFORD, N.H. – Former Vice President Mike Pence is criticizing President Biden and congressional Democrats for what he argues is an attempt to "politicize this national tragedy," after this week's school shooting in Texas. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman. I In the 24 hours after the latest mass shooting, President Biden and numerous Democrats in Congress have once again pushed for passage of stricter gun measures, which Republicans have repeatedly blocked. Pence, speaking Thursday at a luncheon and fundraiser hosted by the New Hampshire Federation of Republican … [Read more...] about Texas school shooting: Pence accuses Biden and Democrats of trying to ‘politicize’ tragedy