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 ...

LIVERMORE, CA – SEPT 24: One of the 23 new wind turbines line the Altamont Pass hills, part of the new Scott Haggerty Wind Energy Center in Livermore, Calif., commemorated with a ribbon cutting ...

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 ...

(CN) – Energy companies generating wind power at Altamont Pass in California agreed to replace old turbines with ones that are safer for birds to satisfy environmentalists’ claims. The deal, brokered ...

After more than four years of work, a project to remove hundreds of outdated wind turbines from a large swath of land along the Altamont Pass and replace them with 23 new, more efficient models ...

In 2010, Alameda County and the Altamont Pass’ numerous wind farm investors settled a lawsuit with multiple environmental groups, including the Audubon Society, over bird deaths. Before then, hundreds ...