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Western governors’ eye nuclear for power demand
The Western Governors’ Association’s two-day “Energy Superabundance” workshop this week brought together Gov. Brad Little of Idaho and Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah with federal regulators, utility executives, investors and supply-chain managers. The workshop in Idaho Falls focused on nuclear power’s chicken-and-egg problem. Without workers there are no factories, without factories there is no fuel,…
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A tale of two cities: Former coal mining communities scramble to reinvent economies
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some 260 miles apart, the fortunes of two Western towns in America’s heartland rose with the coal plants that nurtured their economies and powered their regions. But now change is coming. The coal plants are getting shuttered, just as America hurtles away from fossil-fired energy. …