The Altamont Pass region in eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties is home to the nation’s oldest wind farms, built on land leased from cattle ranchers. Wind power started in California in ...

LIVERMORE — If you’ve driven through the Altamont Pass lately, you may have noticed a subtle but important change: fewer wind turbines on the surrounding hillsides, and some of those that ...

LIVERMORE — In what Alameda County officials are calling a historic milestone, the framework for the next 30 years of wind energy on the Altamont Pass has taken a step forward, with hopes it ...

For decades, wind turbines straddling the Altamont Pass have generated clean electricity for California - at the cost of killing thousands of birds. The tall, grassy hills, raked by stiff winds in ...

A wind farm company with out-of-date turbines that wildlife biologists blame for the deaths of scores of raptors on the Altamont Pass has agreed after years of squawking from environmentalists and ...

LIVERMORE (AP) -- Thousands of decades-old wind turbines in Altamont Pass will be replaced with new ones that produce more power and kill fewer migratory birds under the terms of a legal ...

The Altamont Pass, east of San Francisco, is home to hundreds of bird species, as well as to 3,000 wind energy turbines. That's a deadly combination, especially for golden eagles.

MOUNTAIN VIEW (KCBS)— Google announced on Wednesday a 20-year deal with the Altamont Pass wind farm that will allow its Mountain View headquarters to be entirely powered by wind energy.

The Altamont Pass region in eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties is home to the nation’s oldest wind farms, built on land leased from cattle ranchers. Wind power started in California in ...

LIVERMORE — If you’ve driven through the Altamont Pass lately, you may have noticed a subtle but important change: fewer wind turbines on the surrounding hillsides, and some of those that remain are ...