Iceland wins when it comes to being green.
The nation scores highest in a global environmental performance index from Yale and Columbia Universities.
The U.S. fell 22 spots to number 61.
Switzerland comes in second after Iceland, followed by Costa Rica, Sweden and...
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As the country moves toward a smart grid, security is becoming a major concern.
The older, analog grid was not subject to hacking. But now more than half of the operators of power plants and other critical infrastructure say in a new study that their computer networks have been infiltrated. Many of the victims...
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Osama bin Laden is apparently calling for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar as a way to fight climate change.
An audiotape purporting to be of bin Laden, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, warns of the dangers of climate change and says that...
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The world's economists are talking about climate issues at the annual Davos summit in Switzerland.
Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, told the meeting that money is the key to a new world climate deal.
He says negotiators need agreement on financing mechanisms and new aid to help poorer countries cope with climate change if a new...
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Pennsylvania officials are proposing stricter rules for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.
Gov. Ed Rendell says the state plans to hire 68 new inspectors to monitor a growing number of wells.
New proposed rules would lower the maximum well pressures, raise standards for well cement...
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The Department of Energy is set to finally announce the makeup of a commission to study the disposal of nuclear waste.
The New York Times reported Friday that former Sept. 11 Commission co-chairman Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, a national security adviser...
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President Obama says the federal government will lead the nation in cutting global warming-linked emissions, reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020.
That's well beyond the 17 percent reduction for the nation as a whole that's called for in House-passed climate legislation.
The White House set the cut after 35 agencies, pursuant to an executive order last fall, examined their energy usage and tallied what they could do in energy efficiency and switching to cleaner energy...
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Hybrids have helped bring Ford back.
The only U.S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy court, clawed its way to a $2.7 billion profit in 2009, benefiting from popular cars and trucks like the Ford Fusion midsize sedan and Ford Escape small SUV. It was the company's first annual...
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The U.S. formally affiliated with the Copenhagen Accord today, and pledged to cut its carbon emissions 17% from 2005 levels, conditional on Congressional action on climate legislation.
In a letter to the UN Framework Conventional of Climate Change Secretariat, chief U.S. negotiator Todd Stern said the "pathway" in that pending legislation would cut U.S. emissions 30% by...
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The European Union will stick with its existing carbon cutting target for 2020 as it signs on to the Copenhagen Accord, but it is maintaining its offer to cut deeper.
The European Commission is telling the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat that the EU will pledge to cut overall emissions 20% from 1990 levels by 2020. The EU had offered to cut 30%, if developed and major...
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The Department of Energy is awarding almost $21 billion in stimulus grants to five community-based renewable energy projects.
The recipients include California's Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which will build 1,500 kilowatts of concentrating and flat-plate photovoltaic solar power systems, a digester to...
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Officials in the United Kingdom say scientists at the University of East Anglia broke the country's Freedom of Information Act in their handling of requests for data from climate skeptics.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which administers the act, says e-mails between scientists at the university's Climatic Research...
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Nissan North America, Inc. is getting a $1.4 billion loan from the Department of Energy to modify its Smyrna, Tenn., manufacturing plant to produce the all-electric Nissan LEAF, and the lithium-ion battery packs to power it.
Secretary Steven Chu announced the loan this afternoon at the Washington Auto Show. The loan is coming through DOE's loan guarantee program....
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President Obama isn't the only one pressuring the Senate to pass a climate bill.
Nearly 1,200 state legislators have signed on to a letter urging senators to act on a plan sponsored by John Kerry, D-Mass., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. The Coalition of...
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A group of House energy lawmakers said they are worried DOE's new ARPA-E program does little to protect U.S. innovations from being manufactured overseas.
During a Wednesday hearing of the House Science and Technology Committee, Tennessee Democrat Bart Gordon who chairs the panel told ARPA-E's director Arun...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission says companies should consider the effects of climate change on their operations and what they are doing to curb global warming when disclosing business risks to investors.
In a 3-2, party-line vote, commissioners approved guidelines urging companies to consider the effects of climate-change laws and regulations...
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Oil market speculation driving prices into the stratosphere isn't just a U.S. nightmare.
Major Asian consumers and OPEC all want to keep 2008 from repeating. That's when oil rose to nearly $150 a barrel and then fell to $30 in less than six months. But Bloomberg reports that the...
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As the energy sector assesses President Obama's State of the Union speech tomorrow, the president plans to show the White House is committed to creating jobs with a boost to high speed rail.
At a town hall meeting in Tampa, the president will award $8 billion in stimulus funds to 13 major corridors in 31 states to develop high-speed rail...
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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is asking his legislature to get behind coal.
A day after meeting with environmentalists to address concerns about mountaintop removal mining, Manchin asked lawmakers to approve a symbolic resolution condemning federal...
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Shareholder groups that focus on the environment want natural gas companies in the Marcellus Shale to divulge more about their drilling techniques.
Reuters reports that Green Century Funds and the Investor Environment Health Network are behind shareholder proposals aimed at...
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The U.S. continues to lead the world in geothermal energy capacity and growth. That's according to the Geothermal Energy Association.
A new report says production grew 46% over the past year with total installed capacity reaching just over 3,150 megawatts. The report names 14...
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Media mogul and environmentalist Ted Turner is getting into the business of renewables.
Turner announced he's teaming up with Southern Company of Atlanta to develop renewable energy projects.
Initially, they will develop and invest in large scale solar photovoltaic projects in the...
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The United Nations climate panel is standing behind its claims that global warming is linked to worsening natural disasters.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted last week that it relied on unsound evidence to assert in its Nobel Prize-winning...
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The lead author of the Senate cap-and-trade bill is fighting back against reports that he and other supporters are working to water down the measure to gain support.
Several reports have said that John Kerry, D-Mass., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., are looking to rework the measure in the face of dwindling support...
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski will seek a vote in March on her effort to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
The Alaska Republican last week introduced a "resolution of disapproval," which, if passed, would nullify the EPA's finding that...
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General Motors says its back in the electric motor business.
The auto giant will make the official announcement today in White Marsh, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore.
White Marsh is currently the sight of a transmission plant. GM officials say it will be converted to making electric motors...
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Algae may not be as green as it looks.
A study by Environmental Science and Technology says converting algae to biofuel is energy intensive and can emit more greenhouse gases than it sequesters.
The study says fertilizers must be directly delivered to the pool of water where algae...
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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is calling for a truce on mountaintop removal mining.
The Charleston gazette reports that Manchin met with opponents of the practice on Monday, about two months after he held a summit with the state's major coal executives and lawmakers from key coal-producing regions. Some members...
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Refiners in Texas are cutting back production because of that huge oil tanker spill in Port Arthur.
A Coast Guard Captain says four plants along the Texas ship channel have cut production. The waterway is still closed after more than 460,000 gallons of oil were spilled Saturday when a barge...
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Opponents of drilling for natural gas in New York City's watershed have gotten a boost from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The city's Dept of Environmental Protection has urged New York state officials to bar shale gas drilling in the city's watershed. Now Bloomberg...
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Crews in Port Arthur, Texas, are working to clean up the largest oil spill in the state in more than 15 years.
The Coast Guard says the Eagle Otome, an 800-foot tanker headed to Exxon Mobil's Beaumont refinery, collided Saturday with a towing vessel pushing two barges, spilling about 460-thousand gallons of crude. It was the largest...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has set a new national air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide, one that the agency says will protect Americans from peak short-term exposures.
NO2 is formed from vehicle, power plant and other industrial emissions, and contributes to the formation of fine particle pollution and smog. It has been associated with impaired lung function...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending inspectors to Vermont Yankee to check Entergy's progress in tracing the source of small tritium leaks into groundwater and into an on-site trench.
Entergy found tritium in a groundwater monitoring well. Some measures exceed EPA standards for...
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The US director to the World Bank wants the international body to favor low-carbon energy sources in its lending, and that's quickly affecting coal plant projects.
In a letter to the World Bank obtained by the Times of India, Whitney Debevoise issued guidelines to multidevelopment banks that require...
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The Copenhagen Accord has a new endorsement from four of its authors, but only as a step toward extension of the Kyoto Protocol.
Ministers from China, India, Brazil, and South Africa -- the so-called BASIC countries -- met Sunday in New Delhi.
They say they'll meet the accord's Jan. 31 deadline to list their voluntary climate change...
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The United Nations climate panel is facing more hard questions over its landmark 2007 report on global warming.
This time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is re-examining the report's claim that climate change is linked to increasing numbers...
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Global warming is apparently melting so much arctic ice that a project not thought possible only a few years ago is moving forward.
The telecom group Kodiak Kenai is in a partnership to lay underwater fiberoptic cable connecting London with Tokyo by way of the Northwest Passage.
The plan is a 10,000 mile path from Japan to the...
Despite the claims of global warming skeptics, NASA is out with new data that show the last decade was the warmest on record.
Figures released Thursday show that the mean global surface temperatures for the decade that ended in 2009 was the highest since record keeping began in 1880.
The numbers from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies also show that 2009 was the...
Call it the 21st Century version of "flower power."
The Department of Energy wants to look at the possibilities of using sunflowers as a commercial biofuel.
The agency is joining with the US Department of Agriculture, Genome Canada and France's National Institute for Agricultural Research to fund...
Prominent venture capitalists are urging President Obama to get Congressional action on a Clean Energy Deployment Administration.
Versions of CEDA are in both the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill and the long-pending Senate energy bill.
Letter signers include top officials of Google, PSEG Energy and Tesla Motors, as well as 7 venture capital firms. They say the Senate bill's...
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Asia has now surpassed the U.S. when it comes to investing in "clean energy" projects.
This is mostly because over the past year China spent billions to replace coal-fired power with wind turbines and solar panels.
Bloomberg reports that solar, wind and biofuel...
Clean energy is getting more funding from the Department of Energy, launching four solar partnerships through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday that four solar companies are getting $12 million to transition prototype and pre-commercial photovoltaic technologies into...
Dozens of companies are road-testing a new method of measuring greenhouse gas emissions.
Sixty organizations are looking at their products and supply chains using a new global framework developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
The new protocols allow companies and even...
India's government has announced plans to start trading energy efficiency credits, which it says could develop into a $16 billion market by 2015.
The country is setting up a system that will assign targets for businesses to improve energy efficiency, which will allow companies that...
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The UN scientific panel that raised the alarm on climate change says one bad paragraph doesn't negate 938 pages of research.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a statement on a disputed paragraph in its 2007 report.
That paragraph says the Himalaya's glaciers are melting faster than those of other mountain ranges - and could be gone by 2035. Scientists...
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Big Brown is adding to it's green fleet.
United Parcel Service has rolled out 245 new natural gas trucks in Colorado and California and is now using more than 1,900 worldwide.
With an array of propane, electric, hybrid and natural gas vehicles, the package delivery service...
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President Obama gets a high score for his first year in office from a leading U.S. environmental group.
The League of Conservation Voters gave the president a B-plus grade for his handling of climate and energy issues.
The group says Obama did well to push for $80 billion in clean energy and energy efficiency as...
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski will announce her plans tomorrow for a measure to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
A spokesman says the Alaska Republican will deliver a floor speech in which she will say whether she plans to offer an amendment to the...
The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to FERC's oversight authority on transmission projects.
Justices let stand without comment a lower court ruling blocking federal regulators from overruling states when they make timely decisions rejecting transmission projects.
The ruling last February from the Fourth...
The Copenhagen climate convention didn't produce a cake, but it gave the world's nations the ingredients to bake one, and that culinary effort will proceed in at least two, and probably more, negotiating meetings this year.
That's according to Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaking to reporters today...
The second-largest U.S. oil company is shrinking.
Chevron is cutting jobs in a company-wide restructuring, following a warning that fourth-quarter earnings would fall from previous quarters. The company will report its fourth-quarter earnings Jan. 29th.
The move comes as...
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DuPont says it is investing $175 million to expand a line of solar materials used as a backing in solar cells, in addition to the $120 million the company announced it was investing in solar projects last August.
The money will be used at the company's Circleville, Ohio plant...
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European carbon prices are sinking, and more analysts say they'll keep going downward for the next several years.
Traders see plenty of spare allowances in the EU system because EU officials set the number of allowances to be issued through 2012 before...
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Offshore wind seems to be picking up in Europe.
The European Wind Energy Association says offshore wind grew 54 percent last year.
It says last year, 8 new wind farms with nearly 200 offshore turbines were connected to the grid in Europe, with a combined power generating capacity of...
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The controversial Cape Wind project may help decide the outcome of a major election today in Massachusetts to replace long-time Democrat, Edward Kennedy.
As much as the race will be a referendum on healthcare, The Cape Cod Times says...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu is weighing in on natural gas drilling.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, the secretary said increased supplies and lower prices from U.S. shale plays might be bad news for nuclear power and renewables, but they could help the overall domestic...
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Just how fast are the Himalayan glaciers melting? Maybe not as quick as researchers first thought.
The London-based Times newspaper reports that flawed data may have been used by the United Nation's landmark climate change report three years ago, which said...
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FPL Group says it's suspending about $10-billion in capital projects in Florida over the next five years.
That's because state regulators denied a rate increase to its electric utility, Florida Power and Light.
The Juno Beach-based electricity producer says...
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We now have a qualified endorsement for climate legislation from the Senate Majority Leader. Harry Reid now says the Senate will take up a comprehensive energy and climate bill this spring, as long as it has bipartisan support.
In a speech to a geothermal energy group in New York yesterday...
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Biofuel vehicles are getting an almost $80 million boost from the Department of Energy.
Secretary Steven Chu on Wednesday announced stimulus grants for research and fueling infrastructure.
“Advanced biofuels are crucial to building a clean energy economy,” said Chu. “By harnessing the power of science and technology, we can bring new biofuels to the market and develop a cleaner...
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is now asking for more time to prepare for its upcoming trial againt hundreds of people suing the utility for the 2008 Kingston coal ash spill.
Lawyers for the nation's largest publicly-owned utility told a federal judge that unless the pretrial process is shortened, they will need another year...
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has now surveyed natural gas production in the Fort Worth area and says there are no dangerous levels of air pollution there.
The Commission looked at more than 100 natural gas facilities after it received complaints from residents about drilling in the Barnett Shale...
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The four nations that joined the U.S. in forging the Copenhagen Accord will meet in New Delhi this month.
Environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China will get together either Jan. 24, ahead of the deal's Jan. 31 deadline.
The so-called BASIC bloc agreed that rich nations should submit economy-wide emissions...
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A win for ExxonMobil in Alaska, where a Superior Court judge overturned the state's termination of Exxon's Point Thomson oil and gas field as well as its leases.
Alaskan Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason said the state breached its contract with the oil...
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BEIJING: Beijing has scrapped its requirement that at least seventy percent of wind turbines deployed in China be domestically produced. China Business News first broke the news.
Later a Chinese official confirmed the report to China National Radio. Shi Lishan, deputy director of renewable energy at the Beijing-based National Development and Reform Commission, cited pressure from European and US companies as a...
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A resurging economy could mean rising greenhouse gas emissions.
In its latest short-term energy forecast, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says carbon dioxide emissions from coal, oil and other fossil fuels are likely to rise this year and next as the...
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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has laid out her priorities for 2010, and tackling climate change is on the top of her list.
In a message to all agency employees, Jackson highlighted seven themes she says EPA will focus...
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Even though the Senate is still out for the holidays, lawmakers could face a vote on cap-and-trade as soon as next week.
Lisa Murkowski, ranking member of the Energy Committee, may force an up or down floor vote on the Kerry-Boxer bill next week.
It's part of a Republican effort to prove the Senate doesn't have enough votes to pass a...
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Oil man turned wind proponent, T. Boone Pickens is cutting back plans to build the world's biggest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle.
He has cut his GE order in half and will now take delivery of 300 turbines in 2011.
Pickens says those turbines will be built in Canada and Minnesota because Texas still hasn't put up the necessary transmission lines needed...
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All 12 Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have signed a letter opposing an amendment by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, that would delay plans by the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act.
Murkowski's aides saying she is still deciding how and when to bring her plan to the floor. The next opportunity would be next week as a rider on a bill that would raise the national debt ceiling. A similar plan -- introduced last month as an...
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California's Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee says the state should require GHG emitters to buy pollution allowances they'll need to comply with climate rules, rather than give away the allowances.
The group says California could raise $5 to $50 billion a year over 8 years using the money to replenish the state's General Fund, which could...
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Nevada's largest electric company is partnering with LS Power to build a transmission line from Ely to Las Vegas.
NV Energy dropped its original plan to build its own transmission line along the same route, and will now join up with LS Power's Southwest...
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Environmental groups are threatening to sue coal giant Massey Energy again.
The Sierra Club and several West Virginia groups say Massey has committed 12,000 violations of pollution laws.
They say Massey has released too much aluminum, suspended solids, iron and other...
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Federal regulators are proposing approval of two pipelines to bring natural gas from the Rockies to the Midwest and West Coast.
Approval would sharply increase shipments to population centers in the two sections of the country, moving nearly 2 bcf a day through the...
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West Virginia officials have given a green light to a proposed wind farm in the Eastern Panhandle.
U.S. WindForce of Pennsylvania wants to build 23 turbines on a 3-1/2 mile stretch of mountaintop near Keyser. The state Public Service Commission approved the project Monday, saying it could create up to 200 construction jobs...
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Tomorrow, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will host a meeting in D.C. to discuss the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. It is one of a series of meetings Salazar has promised to hold.
The plan to build a huge wind farm in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Cape Cod has sparked controversy for years, holding up progress on the...
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India has an ambitious plan to increase solar energy.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today the country plans to install 20,000 megawatts of solar capacity by 2022. He says that goal will be the centerpiece of the country's...
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BEIJING: With McMansions lining curvy lanes and luxurious cars sitting by manicured lawns, this gated community in Beijing’s northern suburb seemed a world away from a grieved neighborhood where angry protesters rise. Yet last August, dozens of cars filed out of the compound and paraded through the surrounding streets. Slogans plastered on the vehicles read: “Resolutely oppose garbage incineration.” The Beijing municipal government was planning to build a power plant at A Su Wei, three kilometers west of the protesters’ houses. It will burn trash for fuel.
Soon after the car parade, municipal officials came to talk and the project, which had been slated to break ground by the end of last year, was postponed.
“The government needs provocation,” said Bai Fuqin, a chief organizer of the protest who insists on using an alias. “Otherwise it will try to dupe you.”
As China’s metropolises swell and consumer spending grows, the country is now the world’s largest producer of household waste. At the same time, its landfills are rapidly...
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Hybrid and electric cars could be losing tax breaks in parts of the country.
A county in Northern Virginia could start collecting more personal property taxes from owners of hybrids. Loudoun County's Board of Supervisors is considering raising the tax rate on hybrids because the county needs to plug a $200...
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Pope Benedict XVI says world peace depends on safeguarding God's creation.
The pope made that statement as he criticized world leaders for failing to agree on a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen.
As part of an annual speech today, the pope admonished world leaders, criticizing the "economic and political resistance" to fighting...
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U.S. Solar thermal technology will power at least 2 gigawatts of generation in China.
eSolar of California has licensed its technology to China Shandong Penglai Electric Power for a project in Shaanxi province. The project would be...
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Another coal mine accident in China has left 12 workers dead.
The blaze broke out Friday in the Miaoshang coal mine southeastern China, trapping the workers.
An investigation is underway.. One official pins the fire on a short circuit in an underground cable. The mine was in the process of doubling its...
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With climate legislation stalled on Capitol Hill, states and some federal lawmakers are now trying to rein-in the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions if Congress doesn't act.
EPA is proposing rules based on its finding that carbon dioxide emissions are a danger to human health and welfare. While many state regulators...
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The cleanup of Tennessee's Kingston coal ash spill is bringing more business to dozens of contractors.
TVA is now doling out $428.5 million in contracts to clean up Kingston, Tenn. after the one of the utility's coal waste repositories burst in December 2008.
According to The Knoxville News Sentinel, 10 firms are under contract to receive $10 million...
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Dozens of companies will get federal money to create clean-tech jobs under a series of tax credits announced today.
President Obama is announcing the companies that are eligible for $2.3 billion in credits included in the stimulus package passed nearly a year ago. The credits were awarded on a competitive...
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Royal Dutch Shell has cleared another hurdle in its bid to explore for oil off Alaska's northwest coast.
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved Shell's air quality permit for exploration in the Chukchi Sea.
Shell spent $2.1 billion for the drilling rights in a 2008 lease sale and hopes to have up to three...
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will not leave the Obama cabinet to run for governor of Colorado.
Speculation grew this week that Salazar might seek the office being vacated by Bill Ritter. But Salazar, a former Democratic senator from...
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is headed to the South Pacific to talk climate change.
The State Department says Clinton will visit Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia late next week, following a Tuesday speech...
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If Oregon's largest utility has its way, the state could see a new natural gas-fired power plant.
Portland General Electric is pushing to build a 400-megawatt gas fired plant within the next five years, plus a 100 to 200 megawatt...
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At least 21 people have been killed in a natural gas explosion in northern China.
The accident happened at the Hebei Puyang Iron and Steel in Wu'an in Heibei province. Gas escaped from a pipe during work on a furnace.
The Xinhua news...
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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has introduced the state's Clean Energy Jobs Act.
He says the legislation would create at least 15-thousand "green jobs" in Wisconsin by 2025.
The bill includes accelerating standards for generation fuel from renewable sources and sets what he calls a realistic...
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The Sierra Club and other environmental groups are bringing The Alaska Railroad and an energy company to court over a coal dust problem, wanting the companies to clean up a pile of coal stockpiles in a town near Anchorage that they say is polluting its harbor.
The coal is waiting for delivery to ships for export to China, Korea and Chile.
The lawsuit alleges that the state-owned railroad and Aurora Energy Services in Seward are violating the federal Clean Water...
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The world's carbon market may be growing in volume, but because of the the economy, not much more money is changing hands.
An analysis by Norwegian-based Point Carbon shows that a regional cap-and-trade market in the U.S., the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, led the way for a 68 percent jump in the volume...
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A natural gas pipeline explosion at a military base in Louisiana has killed a civilian.
Investigators are now looking for answers.
The explosion happened at the Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, near a fairly unpopulated part...
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The Postal Service is going green, with a new initiative paying $28.5 million to an Illinois company to help it make East Coast mail facilities more energy efficient.
USPS has already awarded Lime Energy about $30 million worth in contracts over the past six...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is setting stricter health standards for smog.
With the new standards, hundreds more counties nationwide will likely be in violation. The EPA says it will cost tens of billions of dollars annually to...
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The Obama administration has announced nearly $100 million in grants to train workers for jobs in the green energy sector.
The money, part of the 2009, stimulus package, will pay for training for displaced workers, veterans, women and minorities in expanding green industries and related occupations. About $28 million of it will go to projects in communities...
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Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced today that he will not run for a second term in November, despite his reputation as a rising star in the Democratic Party.
Ritter has called his state, Colorado, a leader in energy and environmental policies.
His record on energy spans traditional sources as well as renewables, and he has supported using...
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New York state is considering tougher regulations on natural gas drilling, but energy companies say anything too tough could cost the state millions of dollars.
Governor David Patterson is considering strict regulations on hydrofracking, an extraction process using water and chemicals to break up...
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Arizona may be the land of the sun, but its governor is giving a green light to nuclear energy.
Governor Jan Brewer told a regional business summit Tuesday that Arizona needs more nuclear plants to attract new industry to the state.
The state is already home to the three-reactor Palo Verde station west of Phoenix. But the governor says today's economy and...
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A proposed coal-fired plant in southeastern Kentucky is meeting opposition.
East Kentucky Power wants to build a 278-megawatt plant, called the Smith plant, in Trapp, near the Virginia state line. The state...
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Thirty companies in China are negotiating over the game rules for the country’s first carbon emissions trading market.
At the center of this effort is the Tianjin Climate Exchange (TCX), a joint enterprise between the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Tianjin Property Rights Exchange and the Chicago Climate Exchange.
The participating companies, including Bayer, Motorola, and several Chinese electric utilities are mapping out a voluntary cap and trade system, where they agree to abide by certain carbon emissions limits. Those that exceed the caps buy allowances from those with surpluses. And the People's Bank of China—the...
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Drivers in Norway will soon be able to fill up their fuel tanks with a new biofuel sold at stations around the country.
This month, Statoil is launching Bensin 95 -- a 5 percent bio-ethanol that the company says will reduce carbon emissions in Norway by around...
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Pessimism this morning from the head of the Senate Energy committee, over the prospect of cap and trade legislation passing during 2010.
Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said it's unclear whether Congress will be able to...
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At least 25 coal miners are dead and at least three more are missing in a fire in central China.
The Xinhua News Agency reports that underground cables caught fire Tuesday afternoon at the Lisheng coal mine in Hunan province. The owner of the mine and a senior...
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A prominent environmentalist and a coal company chief will debate climate change and the future of coal as an energy source later this month in Charleston, W. Va.
Tickets for the Jan. 21 forum pitting attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against Massey Energy...
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After the diesel leak into the Wei River in China last week, a major dam on the Yellow river has suspended all power generation to contain the fuel.
Locals were warned to use other sources of water for themselves and livestock.
All six generators at the Sanmenxia power station have been shut down to hold contaminated water...
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Prices for the two fuels that keep most U.S. houses warm are heating up, with all but the western edges and southern tips of the country locked into Arctic cold that could last until February.
Home heating oil for February delivery gained 3.5 percent to $2.19 a gallon in Monday trading, while natural gas rose 5.6 percent to $5.88 per...
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Energy giant PetroChina has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Western Australia state.
In 2007, PetroChina agreed with Woodside Petroleum to potentially buy up to 3.3 million tons...
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Two New Jersey nuclear reactors have become casualties of the deep freeze on the East Coast.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says icing on the Delaware River has forced Public Service Enterprise Group to shut Salem-2 and reduce power at Salem-1. The ice is blocking cooling...
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Iraq has sealed its first post-war oil development deal for two fields in southern Iraq.
The Iraqi Cabinet has approved a deal with a consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell to develop the Majnoon field. Shell and its partner, Malaysia's state-run Petronas, won the rights to...
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Solar projects on federal lands are about to get a big boost.
The Bureau of Land Management says it plans to "fast track" environmental impact studies for 31 of America's "most promising" renewable energy projects by...
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The world's top oil producer says it is satisfied with the Copenhagen climate deal, but warns there could be trouble ahead.
Saudi Arabia's lead negotiator, Mohammad Al-Sabban, tells BBC News that his country was among 25 or so that positively negotiated the...
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Cape Wind or no Cape Wind: A decision will come by March 1.
The Obama Administration says it wants a "common sense" resolution by that date over the huge wind project proposed off the coast of Cape Cod. The plans call for building 130 wind...
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If one person's trash is another person's treasure, then the garbage from a whole area could be a gold mine for one company.
Hundreds of garbage and recycling trucks in the San Francisco Bay area are running on liquefied...
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A massive leak from a diesel fuel pipeline in China has left hundreds of thousands of people without water.
Since the leak started last Wednesday, some 100 tons of diesel have leaked into a tributary that...
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One more oil major is gaining a foothold in U.S. shale, spending $2.25 billion to do it.
France's Total is buying a 25 percent stake in Chesapeake Energy's Barnett Shale holdings for $800 million. Total also will fund 60 percent of...
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A dispute between Russia and Belarus could leave many Europeans shivering in another cold winter if it halts supplies of heating fuel.
Russia has cut off crude oil supplies to Belarus after the two sides couldn't agree on a new tariffs.
It's similar to the dispute that led Russia to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine a year ago, while...
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The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell to a record low last year.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says 34 miners were killed in the U.S. in 2009, the fewest since record keeping...
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The United Kingdom is about to make a major move towards into wind energy, with the British government planning the most ambitious goal for wind power in the world so far - a third of UK energy to come from wind by 2020.
The Times of London says that this week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown will launch a 100-billion...
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The new year will bring new reforms to the Interior Department.
When he came into office a year ago, Secretary Ken Salazar promised to fix a department plagued with scandal and criticized as being too cozy with the oil and gas industry under the Bush administration. In an Interview with The...
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Eleven states in New England and the Mid-Atlantic are adopting a new low carbon fuel standard to help reduce greenhouse gases from vehicles and other sources.
The office of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says the states have all signed a memorandum of understanding to cut emissions...
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A real-life tortoise and hare race is taking shape in California's Mojave desert.
In this case, it's a race between two dozen rare tortoises and BrightSource Energy over who will control a key section of the desert.
The company has been trying for more than two years to get permission to erect 400,000 mirrors...
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