Climate activist Bill McKibben spoke to David Letterman about his new book, Eaarth, and what it will take to get us on a road to a low carbon economy.
North Dakota officials are working to plug a leaking well that began oozing hundreds of barrels of oil Wednesday when its steel and concrete linings failed, officials said.
The Illinois Commerce Commission concluded that the Taylorville "clean coal" plant's uncertain benefits don't justify its high costs, which would be borne by utility ratepayers and businesses statewide.
The company responsible for a pipeline rupture and oil spill earlier this summer plans up to a month of drilling beneath the Straits of Mackinac to reinforce twin crude oil pipelines that cross there.
"If we don't fight this, we have lost all possibility of ever producing power here again," said Holland city councilman Mike Trethewey.
The city of Winona applied for $25 million to build a test lab for Personal Rapid Transit, which uses small, pod-like vehicles on guideways to shuttle passengers to their destinations.
When federal regulators learned last year that a Houston company built pipelines using defective steel, they ordered hundreds of sections of the newly laid pipe replaced. Since then, the government has relaxed that approach.
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid says that at least two Republican senators will support a renewable energy standard as part of a pared-down energy bill.
Many homeowners who participated in a program that let them repay the cost of energy improvements through their property taxes must pay off the loans before they can refinance their mortgages, two government-chartered mortgage companies said Tuesday.
Although it is estimated that tightened emissions regulation will push about a sixth of the aging coal fleet into retirement, those plants that survive the gauntlet will be harder than ever to close after receiving expensive retrofits.
The nation's top law enforcement official is being asked to look into whether Enbridge Energy Partners pressured Michigan residents to give up legal rights to sue in exchange for hotel rooms, air purifiers and other expenses in the wake of July's oil spill.
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.
At least some of the coal producers and other companies working with the Department of Energy to build an experimental coal-fired power plant in Illinois have decided to stick with the project despite major changes to the original plan.
Of the nation’s 104 commercial reactors, no two are exactly the same, a fact that experts blame for causing construction and regulatory delays and leading to bigger bills for power customers.
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The Sandusky Register has unearthed an email sent out last week by a local Tea Party group called The Freedom Institute of Erie County to the representatives of candidates seeking office in the forthcoming elections.
The company said Tuesday that the sale of John Deere Renewables to a subsidiary of Exelon for $900 million will allow it to focus on its core business of manufacturing farm equipment.
Energy storage could become a $35 billion business by 2020, bolstered by more wind and solar farms coming online as well as the roll out of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles and the deployment of smart grid technology, according to a new report by Pike Research.
Northern forests will become thinner in the next few decades. The prairie will march north and east. Climate change and drought are not the only things forest managers need to worry about, says a scientific paper to be published this week.
The companies pursuing the experimental FutureGen power plant are expected to meet in Washington D.C. as early as today to decide whether to stay involved now that it has been
drastically altered by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Public Service Commission voted 3-0 to adopt standards for noise and shadow flicker, and opted to allow local governments to require "good neighbor payments" to residents who live within one-half mile of a wind turbine.
