Wind energy gains ground in Arkansas after years of setbacks

Updated 12:05 p.m., Sept. 10, 2021 One of Arkansas’s biggest utilities is delivering wind power to thousands of homes in the state, and the company says more is on the way. On Friday, Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) announced the…

Tornadoes increasing in Arkansas due to climate change, researcher says

On the afternoon of Saturday, March 28, 2020, Kathie Pace and her family hid in a stairwell as a tornado slashed through their northeast Jonesboro subdivision. “I heard the windows shattering,” she said recently. “Later, we found someone’s turbine from…

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