Facing a huge increase in North Dakota’s number of wind towers, state regulators promised to pay close attention to projects’ potential effects on the whooping crane, a huge bird is in danger of extinction. ”We generally aren’t happy until you are,” Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer told Jeffrey Towner, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife field supervisor [...]

Lawmakers and environmentalists on Monday urged state regulators to build transmission lines that will transport the maximum amount of wind power from rural West Texas that’s feasible to help power homes and businesses in the rest of the state. But others cautioned that a more measured approach should be adopted rather than placing too much reliance [...]