Peter O'Dowd
News DirectorNews Director Peter O'Dowd leads a newsroom that includes reporters in seven Southwestern bureaus. His work has aired on The BBC, NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, and American Public Media's Marketplace. He's covered technology, the housing bubble and the constant flap over immigration policy that keeps Arizona in the national spotlight. Peter began his radio career at Wyoming Public Radio. He has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and he's taught English in Tokyo, Japan.
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Arizona-based First Solar will face investors Thursday. The quarterly earnings call will be the first time managers from the leading U.S. solar panel manufacturer talk publicly after the CEO was fired. -
Analysts say manufacturer First Solar needs federal support to keep its competitive edge and to drive down the cost to produce solar panels, a key factor to industry success. But the kind of federal loan guarantees given to failed energy company Solyndra are increasingly unpopular in Washington. -
Recent headlines have darkened the hopes of the rising solar power industry. But an Arizona company is shining a ray of light on the sector: Its manufacturing costs are low enough to compete with Third World factories.
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Over the last 70 years, groundwater in Arizona's alluvial basins has been depleted by more than 74.5 million acre-feet, or approximately three times the maximum storage of Lake Powell. -
Mexican officials will release the animals on a ranch in northeastern Sonora, near the U.S. Mexico border. The Mexican Wolf once roamed much of the Southwest. -
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