If Democrats lose both the White House and the Senate, it could allow Republicans to reverse the climate wins of the Biden administration.

Julie Regan, executive director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Tahoe Fund CEO Amy Berry and Travel North Tahoe Nevada President and CEO Andy Chapman sat down with The Nevada Independent editor and CEO Jon Ralston at an IndyTalks event to discuss all things Lake Tahoe — water clarity, affordable housing, wildfire escape plans, development and traffic.

Greenlink West, a costly large-scale transmission line set to run between Las Vegas and Reno, received a final stamp of approval Monday from the Department of Interior.

The destination — still more than an hour away — was City, a mile-and-a-half long, half-mile-wide concrete-and-rock sculpture. The artist, Michael Heizer, opened his magnum opus to visitors in September 2022 after more than 50 years of construction.

In interviews, more than a dozen industry players, lawmakers and environmental advocates touted the law’s transformational potential and existing impact in Nevada. But the bureaucratic and corporate timelines of the IRA’s funding provisions move much slower than the election cycle. 

Nearly one-fifth of Nevada’s public lands could open up to utility-scale solar development under the Bureau of Land Management’s final Western Solar Plan — drawing the support of solar developers and the ire of conservationists.

The state’s new climate plan highlights the need to maintain affordable energy for Nevadans and focus on energy production within the state while largely ignoring carbon emissions and neglecting to include policies to deal with extreme heat.

Google plans to invest more than $400 million in Nevada this year to support its data center campuses in Storey and Clark counties, the company announced Tuesday.

Solar developers are seeking to construct a series of projects in Esmeralda County that, if built, would have a footprint nearly the size of Las Vegas.

The reduction for Nevada — which receives far less water than Arizona, California or Mexico — will stay at 7 percent.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle (and both sides of the lake) met at the 28th annual Lake Tahoe Summit at Round Hill Pines on Wednesday to discuss the future of transportation in the Tahoe Basin.

The Colorado River supplies water to seven Western states, more than two dozen Native American tribes, and two states in Mexico.

About three-quarters of Nevadans surveyed supported tax credits for purchasing electric vehicles and for completing energy efficient home upgrades.

By a 15-4 vote last week, the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee passed the Energy Permitting Reform Act, a compromise bill by brought Sens. Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) to speed up the development of energy projects — renewable and fossil fuels.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture removed nearly two dozen feral horses on Wednesday from the Virginia Range — the first time in seven years that the agency has removed such a large number of horses.

Some of those who have read the plan rebuked its intention and said it lacked specific and actionable objectives and timelines to accomplish them.

Lake Tahoe is not yet infested with zebra or quagga mussels, but the Tahoe Resource Conservation District still calls them “the most serious threats to streams and lakes in the Lake Tahoe region.”

As part of a federal project, scientists and volunteers mapped Reno's neighborhoods to take point-in-time temperature measurements to better understand urban heat islands. Las Vegas was mapped in 2022.

Most heat-related deaths involve homeless people living outdoors. But those who die inside without sufficient cooling also are vulnerable.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced a lands bill for Pershing County on Tuesday, that would privatize public land for economic development — including mining — while adding conservation protections to other parcels in the area.