The Altamont Pass — one of the largest concentrations of wind farms in the country — is in the midst of a major decommission of about 4,000 older generation turbines in an effort to reduce the ...

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 ...

And although wind farm developers generally are taking more caution these days to place turbines outside of “the very worst” areas, it’s not enough, he added. In 2010, Alameda County and the Altamont ...

More birds are killed at Altamont Pass than any other wind-power area in the nation. These include about 500 raptors such as golden eagles, red-tailed hawks and burrowing owls, according to ...

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. Special ...

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 — 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 ...