Arizona Corporation Commissioner Doug Little will resign his post after taking a job with the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington D.C.

More options to encourage the efficient consumption of power have emerged as energy resources in the Valley evolved over the past decade.

Despite pledges to look for alternatives, closing the Navajo Generating Station in Page could devastate the local economy, where hundreds of jobs rely on the plant and affiliated coal mine and where experts see few, if any, workable solutions.

For centuries, Native Americans – just like my fellow farmers – have called upon the land they call home to make their way in the world.

The energy landscape is rapidly changing, however, and we are very possibly in the midst of writing a new energy chapter for Arizona.

Picking up where he left off last year, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Burns is pursuing rules on transparency and electioneering disclosure for his beleaguered regulatory body.

Making the switch to renewable energy is clearly not a partisan issue. According to the Post-Election National Clean Energy Survey conducted by the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, 75 percent of Trump voters support taking action to accelerate the development and use of clean energy in the United States. Altogether, 64 percent of the 1,000 voters surveyed say they’d even pay more to support renewables.

Regulators today picked Tom Forese as chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission. Former gubernatorial staffer Ted Vogt also took over as executive director of the regulatory agency.

A state senator asked the Arizona Attorney General’s to investigate potential noncompliance by rooftop solar companies with two laws aimed at protecting consumers.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to get rid of President Barack Obama’s landmark environmental policy, the Clean Power Plan, which calls on states to reduce carbon emissions nationwide by 32 percent by 2030. In Arizona, the plan calls for a 34 percent reduction in emissions.