CEDAR RAPIDS — The Coggon Solar project will head into its third consideration next week with one of the biggest remaining questions being: What will the setback distance be for the solar panels from ...

SIOUX CITY – Updated Woodbury County wind turbine setback distances made it through another day of discussion by the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors. The board on Tuesday unanimously approved the ...

Turbines at the Gray County Wind Farm near Montezuma, Kansas. An attorney for a renewable energy company says plans for a large wind farm in southwest Douglas County will never advance if the Douglas ...

SIOUX CITY -- Wind turbine setback distances have come before the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors again. The board on Tuesday unanimously directed the Woodbury County Zoning Office to increase ...

In a 3-2 vote, the Planning and Zoning Commission advanced a pipeline ordinance with amendments that, among other changes, increased the setback distance to one mile from municipalities. In total, the ...

The new ordinance increases the setback distance for wind turbines from 1,250 feet to 2,500 feet. The potential for wind energy is now severely limited in Woodbury County. The Woodbury County board of ...

The number of local zoning ordinances governing renewable energy deployment is growing in the United States, according to new research by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy ...

Members of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission listen to county planning staff during a meeting on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Just after midnight on Tuesday, the Lawrence-Douglas County ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Local families and environmental groups are fighting to increase the setback distance between unconventional wells and homes, schools, hospitals and daycares. Some of those groups, ...

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