A Richland business is reaping the financial rewards of going green. 

The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers. 

Bonneville Power Administration is seeking to collect an additional $125 million from its ratepayers over the next two years, reportedly to recover its costs in meeting a court order to spill more water from its hydroelectric dams. 

The state Supreme Court has invalidated a ballot measure approved by voters in 2024 that sought to slow Washington’s shift from natural gas toward technology like electric heat pumps.

The system that pretreats hazardous tank waste at the Hanford site before it can be transformed into glass is back online after a more than six-month shutdown. 

A new program from the U.S. Department of Energy aims to help builders cut expenses and build more quickly at a time when the costs for construction labor and materials are skyrocketing. 

About 1,000 acres of 7,600 acres of agricultural land northeast of Ruppert Road that make up the Lewis and Clark Ranch area in West Richland were sold – twice and for more than triple the price. And city officials said the sale was to a development company whose work includes data centers.

The Washington Supreme Court has yet to rule on the lawsuit challenging a large wind farm project outside the Tri-Cities but that hasn’t stopped the project’s developer from filing yet another change to its plans.

The feds keeping touting America’s new nuclear initiatives but doubts have surfaced about whether the pronouncements and plans will become reality.