Green energy, politics lead agenda at Vegas summit

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Before the beginning of the annual conference in a press conference before the summit, Sen. Reid announced that U.S. wind power now has 50 gigawatts of electric generating capacity.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The politics of renewable energy headed the agenda in battleground Nevada, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar opened a fifth annual green energy conference touting the start of a 12-square-mile wind energy farm in rural Whi...

Published: 08/08/2012