Walmart is reaching out to its suppliers to follow its lead in shrinking their carbon footprints.
The nation's largest retailer has announced it will press its suppliers to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2015. That represents one and a half times Walmart's...
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The Interior Department has passed a deadline today for a court-ordered review of its offshore drilling plan for Alaska, delaying implementation of a new plan.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shut down the department's Bush-era five-year leasing plan last year and...
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India has announced it's starting a national clean energy fund, and it will be funded through taxes on coal.
Bloomberg reported Friday that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says a $1 "clean energy tax" will be imposed on each metric ton of domestic...
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Facing what a top official called "a crisis of confidence" over its premier climate change report, the UN will appoint a panel of independent scientists to investigate allegations of sloppiness and errors.
That news came out of the UN Environment...
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A new UN study aims to tie down just how big a role oceans play in absorbing carbon.
The UN Environment Programme and Indonesia have announced a joint study of the role marine...
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A cap on carbon emissions could be another major sticking point between the United States and China in the quest for a world climate treaty.
Chinese state media reports that the country's top climate change negotiator, Su Wei, has said the country's carbon emissions must increase because...
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A federal safety investigator says officials are looking for safer alternatives to a venting procedure that led to a deadly explosion this month at an under-construction natural gas power plant.
Six workers were killed in the Feb. 7 explosion at the 620-megawatt Kleen Energy Systems plant in...
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The EPA is working on new regulations for coal ash, but two environmental groups say the agency isn't doing enough.
The Coal Combustion Waste Initiative for Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice say the EPA has missed dozens of cases where...
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UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says he's doubtful about a worldwide treaty this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Yvo de Boer, who is resigning his post in July, says there's not enough time to recover from disagreements among industrialized and emerging nations that scuttled a binding pact at...
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A subsidiary of oil giant Chevron plans to build what New Mexico officials call the largest solar plant in the nation.
Chevron Mining and Governor Bill Richardson said Tuesday the concentrating photovoltaic demonstration project would be in Santa Fe.
The 1-megawatt plant will be built on 20 acres of the company's molybdenum mine near Questa in...
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Climate scientists are stepping up their data collection efforts in an effort they say is aimed at gaining more credibility for their work.
Britain's Met Office is proposing that climate scientists around the world measure land surface temperatures as often as several times a day, and...
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A new report from the United Nations expected out this spring has found that the world's leading companies cause more than $2 trillion per year in environmental damage.
The report is being compiled by the British environmental consulting firm Truscot, which looked at 3,000 companies, including every member of the Standard and Poor's 500 largest...
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Italian officials say an oil spill could cause an ecological disaster as the sludge hits the country's longest and most important river.
Officials in Milan say unknown amounts of gasoline and oil spilled into the Lambro River near...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai is suggesting that eastern European nations band together to break their dependence on Russian fuel supplies.
Bloomberg reports that in a meeting today with leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and...
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One group of Senate Republicans wants the Environmental Protection Agency to halt its plans to regulate greenhouse gases because its conclusions are based on what the lawmakers call faulty and possibly manipulated data.
A minority report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee says federal agencies cannot rely on information obtained from the embattled UN Intergovernmental Panel...
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The Constellation and Electricite de France deal has paid off for the Energy Group.
After posting a $1.4 billion dollar loss in the fourth quarter of 2008, Constellation has now reported a $4.4 billion profit for the end of last year.
Constellation, the parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric, sold half of its nuclear division...
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United Nations climate negotiators will try to pick up the pieces from Copenhagen in April.
The December conference ended without consensus, with six nations blocking adoption of the Copenhagen Accord negotiated by major world leaders.
Danish officials, who now chair the U.N. process, say climate negotiators will meet April 9-11 in...
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., says history will judge climate change deniers more harshly than Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who tried to avoid World War II by appeasing Adolf Hitler.
Speaking today at a meeting of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Whitehouse said the scientific consensus that damaging climate...
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A new United Nations study says carbon cuts pledged in the Copenhagen Accord can't keep the world from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius.
The study was released today at the UN Environment Programme meeting in Indonesia.
Widely used climate models predict devastating impacts if the global mean temperature rises...
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The Energy Department has issued its largest loan guarantee ever for a solar project.
DOE has offered BrightSource Energy $1.4 billion in guarantees to build three solar thermal plants in California's Mojave Desert. BrightSource still must comply with state and federal environmental reviews and raise private funds to close the...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu is talking about oil prices on his visit to the Middle East.
Chu met Monday with Saudi King Abdullah and Oil Minister Ali-al Naimi, the first of three meetings this week with with OPEC oil ministers. Later, he spoke about volatility in oil markets, saying it is a bigger concern to the United States than the overall price of oil. He also said he...
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The EPA won't make any moves to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the "endangerment finding" this year, Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a letter to Senators late on Monday, a concession to coal-state Democrats worried over impacts to local industry.
Jackson said in her letter that no industries, factories and other emitters would be required to address greenhouse gas emissions in Clean Air...
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Under fire by the Sierra Club and others, the state of Wisconsin says it will take action to install more pollution controls, cut down on coal use or even possibly shut down five coal plants.
The state's Department of Administration announced the plants in question are at Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison and UW...
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Key lawmakers could come out this week with the details of a Senate climate bill.
John Kerry, D-Mass, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have been behind the push for a compromise plan since an initial version made it through committee without a single Republican vote.
Now a Senate aide with knowledge of the compromise legislation tells Reuters those...
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While some states offer incentives for wind developers to move in, Wyoming wants the industry to ante up.
The state's House of Representatives passed a bill that would impose a $1-per-megawatt-hour tax on wind energy production.
The estimated $4 million revenue raised annually would be divided between the counties where the...
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U.S. officials tell the United Nations they want a legally binding climate deal at December's UN summit in Mexico.
In a letter to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the State Department says the agreement should cover "all major economies," and include elements from December's...
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Science has been split over whether global warming is worsening hurricanes and will continue to do so. Now, the debate seems to be settling.
Top researchers agree, the world will get fewer but stronger and more damaging hurricanes in coming years, thanks to global warming.
In a new study, a World Meteorological Organization panel of 10 experts...
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Just as oil prices begin to bounce back from the recession, two oilfield services companies are merging in an $11 billion deal.
Industry leader Schlumberger - whose main offices are in Paris, Houston, and The Hague - has agreed to buy Smith International in a stock deal.
The global recession put a damper on energy demand and its worldwide drilling...
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There's a new push against impending EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions -- this time from Democrats.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is leading the push by a group of coal state senators.
The group sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, challenging the agency's plans to regulate GHGs...
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There are new tensions between Great Britain and Argentina as a British oil company starts drilling for oil off the disputed Falkland Islands.
Desire Petroleum says its rig is inside British waters, near the Falklands.
Argentina disagrees. It says its territorial waters extend well beyond the archipelago, to the edge..
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With U.S. utilities remaining fragmented and small by world standards, financing the nation's nuclear revival may depend on large Asian and Western European vendors and utilities investing in nuclear projects.
That conclusion came from a panel of power industry financing experts gathered February 18 at the Platts Nuclear Conference in Rockville, MD.
They said the project financing structures that have evolved over the last two decades, since the first generation of nuclear power plants was completed...
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With President Obama's endorsement of nuclear power and DOE's award of the first loan guarantee for a new nuclear plant, U.S. manufacturers can begin to invest for a revival of nuclear construction.
That was the message from nuclear executives at the Platts Nuclear Conference...
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For the past year, the Obama administration has said green job creation hinges on the development of clean energy technology. But the US Chamber of Commerce said today that the clean energy technology sector needs intellectual property protection first.
Today, the Chamber released its 2010 IP agenda. In it, the Chamber's Global and Intellectual Property Center urged the administration and Congress to adopt...
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he House Energy and Commerce committee wants to know how safe hydraulic fracturing is, and it's asking companies in the business to submit data to Congress. Today committee chairman Henry Waxman sent letters to eight oil services companies, including the three biggest, Halliburton, BJ Services and Schlumberger -- to find out just what's in the chemical fluids they use -- and much is injected.
"Hydraulic fracturing could help us unlock vast domestic natural gas reserves once thought unattainable, strengthening America's energy independence and reducing carbon emissions," said Chairman Waxman...
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The UN’s climate chief, Yvo de Boer, is resigning as of July.
De Boer told the AP he will step down July 1 and join the consulting firm KPMG.
He said the Bali conference, which set a road map to reach a treaty in Copenhagen last December, was the high point of his tenure. De Boer was known to be disappointed with...
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Two oil and gas majors are leaving the high-profile U.S. Climate Action Partnership - the coalition of business and environmental CEOs that produced a blueprint used to draft the Waxman-Markey climate bill.
BP America and ConocoPhillips are leaving the group, saying climate legislation pending in Congress unfairly favors coal over natural gas...
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South Carolina could be the first state to sue over the Obama Administration's decision to end the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, after Gov. Mark Sanford held a news conference today in Columbia, S.C. with members of the Congressional Delegation and General Assembly.
The group announced its opposition to the halt on repository funding and federal withdrawal of...
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President Barack Obama has announced that Southern Company will receive the first loan guarantee for a new nuclear plant at its Vogtle station in Burke, Georgia.
Obama made the announcement today while visiting the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Lanham, Maryland.
He traveled there to make remarks on energy jobs and to mark the first anniversary of the Recovery Act.
FIRST-EVER NUCLEAR LOAN GUARANTEE
Congress authorized the nuclear loan guarantees in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help private utilities get the multi-year financing needed, but this will be the first guarantee granted.
It will be contingent upon Southern's acquisition of a license from the NRC. That license has been undergoing...
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The University of East Anglia will open a new probe into the embattled Climatic Research Unit, saying it will examine the published papers and research from the scientists at the climate change nerve center, after stolen CRU e-mails last year appeared to show efforts by scientists fudging global warming research and obstructing efforts by skeptics to get raw data.
"Published papers from CRU have gone through the rigorous and intensive peer review process which is the keystone for maintaining...
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This weekend hundreds of U.S. religious leaders will take part in the National Preach-In, to explain to their congregations why they believe there's a need to take action against climate change.
"We now know a carbon economy and an oil-and-coal basis for energy policy is killing us and the earth," said Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb...
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The United Nations is moving forward in implementing the Copenhagen Accord, setting up a high-level advisory panel Friday to mobilize climate funding for developing nations.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced today that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi will lead the panel. The group will include heads of state and...
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Arizona is backing out of a regional cap-and-trade program, saying it's too expensive and would cripple the state's economy.
Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, made the move this week with an executive order that also has the state reviewing all its climate change policies.
Benjamin Grumbles, the head of the state Department of Environmental Quality, says the state will now focus on initiatives to expand the...
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Gazprom has been given the final go-ahead to build a 750-mile natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea to Germany, creating the first direct link to western Europe.
Finland environment officials gave their permission, despite earlier environmental concerns. It was the last permit needed.
Some groups still worry that the heavy metals and other materials used in construction...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has compiled a new report describing what 22 electric plants are doing to make their coal ash storage safer.
It also contains recommendations about how utilities can more efficiently achieve their plans.
The report follows EPA's assessment last fall on the safety of the coal ash dams.
All of these new safety measures stem from the December 2008 spill in Kingston, Tennessee, where the Tennessee Valley Authority's storage dam burst, flooding the area and...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is close to deciding whether electric utilities must consider burning natural gas as a means of cutting greenhouse gases.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the agency is determining what counts as "best available control technology" as it finalizes emissions rules for power plants and other stationary emissions...
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The leader of the nation's major electric utility trade group says pursuing an "economy-wide" federal climate bill will remain a priority for his group this year.
Edison Electric Institute President Tom Kuhn delivered his annual "state of the industry" address this week to Wall Street investors. He told the audience that the cornerstone of smart...
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Maine's Supreme Court is weighing a state law meant to speed deployment of wind power.
At issue: whether the law's noise standards properly protect residents around projects.
The case was brought by activists protesting a 40-turbine wind project of Evergreen Wind Power...
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A merger of two giant electric utilities will create one of the nation's largest power companies.
Akron, Ohio, based FirstEnergy says it will buy Greensburg, Pa., based Allegheny Energy for about $4.7 billion in stock.If the deal closes as expected by mid-2011, the result would be a single company serving more than 6-million...
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The British Columbia government has killed a proposed coal mine on the headwaters of the Flathead River with a cabinet order that prohibits mining and drilling in the region.
The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that Premier Gordon Campbell made the announcement this week in a speech that also criticized Canadian...
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Parts of the East Coast, including Washington, are buried under record snowfall, and that's giving climate change skeptics the chance to push their case against global warming.
The man who may be the most vocal climate skeptic in Congress, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is making his point on Capitol Hill. Even though the House is closed for business and Senate...
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Efficiency, conservation, wind and natural gas - and no coal.
That's how the Pacific Northwest should invest for its next two decades, says the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
The regional planning body says the region can avoid the need for 5,900 megawatts of new power by investing in energy-efficient buildings...
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The world's largest nuclear generator posted better than expected profits for 2009 and says 2010 will be even better. Electricité de France SA, or EDF, reported 2009 profits of $23 billion, a 12 percent boost that was fueled mainly by its acquisition of British Energy, the U.K. nuclear operator.
Chief Executive Officer Henri Proglio told a group of reporters today in Paris that reactor availability must increase by 1.5 to 2 percentage points...
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A study funded by the developer of the proposed Cape Wind project on Nantucket Sound contends the wind farm would drive down New England's wholesale electric costs by $4.6 billion over 25 years.
The study by Charles River Associates concludes that if the project is built as planned, utilities in the region would save an average of $185 million...
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The Utah House is now on the record: The majority of its members do not believe in climate science and want the federal government to halt carbon dioxide reduction programs.
Lawmakers voted 56-17 Tuesday to aprove the nonbinding resolution, which now...
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Some businesses in the United Kingdom are warning of an oil shortage that could affect consumers more deeply than the financial crisis.
The U.K. Industry Task-Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security, or ITPOES, released a report today, “The Oil Crunch: a wake-up call to the UK economy.” It says oil shortages will destabilize...
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The U.S. needs both traditional and new sources of energy, says President Obama, and he wants "bipartisan agreement" in Congress "that we have to take a both/and approach rather than an either/or approach."
Speaking to reporters at an impromptu press conference at the White House Tuesday, Obama said he is convinced leading this century's global...
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Utah is home to the only low-level nuclear waste storage site for 36 states, but another one could be located there in the future.
Former Envirocare President Charles Judd wants to build a new site on state land near Interstate 80 in Tooele County. Envirocare was the predecessor to Energy Solutions Inc., which runs...
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The U.S. views the Copenhagen Accord as an "operational document" that should "materially influence" negotiations for any future legally binding international climate treaty, Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, said Tuesday.
Speaking to the Center for American Progress, Stern noted that a number of nations affiliating with the accord included statements that...
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The FutureGen Alliance has picked up another major partner.
Caterpillar has signed on to the experimental carbon capture and sequestration project in Illinois.
The mining and construction equipment maker joins the project less than a week after...
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With more than a billion people, taking a regular census in China is a certainly challenge, but now the world's top carbon emitter says it has completed its first "pollution census."
China's vice minister of environmental protection says the country has mapped more than 5 million...
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Layoffs are something of a rarity in the nuclear industry, but Dominion says it is laying off up to 75 people at its Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut after its buyout program fell short of its goal.
The job cuts are due to happen by April 1.
Company spokesman Richard Zuercher says fewer than 150 people signed up for the voluntary...
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Nuclear vendor Areva is getting into solar.
The French engineering and construction giant has bought Ausra, a California firm providing large-scale concentrating solar power. Its technology uses mirrors to focus the sun's energy...
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New Mexico lawmakers are laying the groundwork for large-scale carbon capture and sequestration in the state.
The state Senate has approved a bill that establishes ownership rights for so-called "pore spaces" -- the empty spaces underground.
But not before a lengthy debate about property rights, effects on oil and gas development and...
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Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has proposed the creation of an NOAA Climate Service, an office of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration that would unify all the agency's climate science and data.
Locke said the office would integrate the agency's climate science and services and make...
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Liquid Environmental Solutions, a wastewater processing company in Mobile, Alabama has stopped accepting shipments of runoff wastewater from an Alabama landfill that is receiving coal ash.
The ash, laced with arsenic, mercury and some other heavy metals, is left over from TVA's 2008 coal ash...
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Magnum Energy says it plans to dig a series of underground caverns that will be used to store compressed air generated by a wind and solar farm in central Utah.
The compressed air will run a turbine to produce electricity at times when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.
The caves will be hollowed out of a massive salt deposit a mile...
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A bill that would increase Colorado's renewable energy standard has passed its first test.
The measure approved Friday by the state's House Transportation and Energy Committee would require large utility companies to generate...
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Officials in a Virginia county have approved permits that could bring the state's largest coal-fueled power plant there.
The Surry County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved permits for about 350 acres outside Dendron, where Old Dominion Electric Cooperative plans to build the 1,500-megawatt Cypress Creek Power...
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President Obama's plan to cut federal payments for mining regulation isn't sitting well with coal companies.
National Mining Association President Hal Quinn calls the budget proposal a new tax that will cost jobs and hurt the economy.
The federal spending plan released last week would cut $16.7 million for support payments to...
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While Toyota grapples with breaking problems on its Prius and Lexus models, now comes word that Ford is putting the brakes on it's Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids.
The company says it will fix more than 17-thousand hybrids. The issue is with the regenerative braking system.
Ford says a software glitch built on hybrids before Oct. 17 could cause drivers to perceive a loss...
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The Energy Department says it needs seven percent more in 2011 than it has in its 2010 budget.
Specifically it wants a boost in clean energy research and development and federal loan guarantees.
The ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee told Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week she thinks DOE...
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One top climate scientists says this summer's Arctic ice melt could be a "double whammy."
The head of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, Mark Serreze, says the ice is growing...
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A major California utility has the go-ahead from environmental officials in the San Francisco Bay area to build the nation's first power plant with a federal limit on greenhouse gas emissions.
Calpine says construction could begin this year on the 600-megawatt natural gas power plant in Hayward, east of San Francisco. The combined...
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Two Senators are proposing a bill to make all coal-fired power plants install pollution control equipment.
Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Tom Carper, D-Del., want to amend the Clean Air Act and force older, grandfathered plants to clean...
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One of the country's largest gas guzzlers is considering raising taxes on oil to pay for renewable energy.
Hawaii may add a 2 to 3 cent tax on every gallon of gasoline in order to raise $30 million for the state's renewable energy initiatives.
Hawaii wants to generate 40 percent...
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The world's largest greenhouse gas emitter is adding more wind-generated electricity to its grids.
A new study by the Global Wind Energy Council says China doubled its wind capacity over the past year from 12 to 25 gigawatts and became...
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A study released today shows a national Renewable Electricity Standard of 25 percent by 2025 would create 274,000 more jobs in the U.S. renewables industry. And without a national RES, fledgling industries like wind will fail to grow as short term tax benefits expire.
Those study by Navigant, done for the RES Alliance for Jobs, says business needs long-term market prospects to invest in manufacturing and...
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NRG and Delaware regulators have come to a tentative agreement to shut another unit at NRG's Indian River coal plant.
The two oldest units are being shut this year and next under a 2007 consent decree.
The latest agreement would shut the third unit in 2013, thereby eliminating 30 to 40 billion gallons...
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The UN Climate Chief is now defending his top scientist.
Yvo de Boer says it would be "senseless" for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
De Boer told reporters in New Delhi that the Nobel-winner is not personally responsible for an inaccurate claim in the panel's 2007 report. The panel apologized last week for the assertion that...
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The world's biggest industrial democracies are heading to the top of the world for their next meeting to underscore a side effect of climate change.
G-7 leaders will meet tomorrow and Saturday in the Canadian town of Iqaluit -- the territorial capital of Nunavut, whose largely Inuit population...
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Driving an alternative fuel vehicle and running out of juice?
As Apple would say,"There's an app for that!"
A company called NY Enterprises now...
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The investigation into the role of a Penn State climate scientist involved in the stolen East Anglia e-mails is taking a more serious turn.
The university says its inquiry into whether Professor Michael Mann committed academic misconduct about his climate research, has turned into an full-scale probe. Investigators are...
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The head of the UN's climate change panel is refusing to apologize for a 2007 report paragraph that claimed global warming could melt Himalayan glaciers by 2035.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, did admit the mistake...
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A commercial wind farm proposed along a scenic ridgeline on the Virginia-West Virginia border may be dead.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday that after a year of controversy, Tazewell County, Va., supervisors on Tuesday passed a ridgeline ordinance, which bars...
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New rules for measuring emissions for biofuel production are due out as soon as today from the EPA.
The White House has signed off on a proposed rule known as the second renewable fuels standard, or RFS2, which has been delayed since late last year.
The standard could include a requirement that corn-based ethanol produce less carbon dioxide over its life cycle than...
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Coal and biofuels will be the main topics at the White House today when President Obama meets with a bipartisan group of governors this afternoon.
The White House invited 11 governors to attend the meeting with the President and Vice President -- the majority from major coal producers and users: West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee...
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A new emphasis on nuclear power plants could be the key to passing a climate bill in the Senate.
Clean Skies News has obtained a working draft copy of the nuclear title currently under construction by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
An energy policy insider familiar with the ongoing Senate discussions says it contains several critical components, including:
British Petroleum has up and down news in its latest earnings report.
The British energy giant reports a net profit in the fourth quarter, spurred by increased oil and gas production and higher average oil prices.
But BP's shares fell more than 4 percent as the company's performance in refining was weaker than expected. Analysts say results demonstrate...
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A federal judge is banning protesters from the southern West Virginia properties where Massey Energy does surface mining.
The measure is temporary for now, but Massey says it wants the ban made permanent.
A federal judge granted the request in conjunction with a lawsuit filed by Massey against...
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President Obama is asking for more satellites to study climate change, and better resources to address the impacts.
The president's 2011 budget seeks $5.6 billion for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, a 17% increase over the current year's administration budget.
The breakdown: $2.2-billion to satellite services, with half of that for the new Joint Polar Satellite...
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he Obama Administration has been pushing for a year, and now the Department of Energy has officially asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to drop its license application to use Yucca Mountain.
The move comes as the new White House budget proposal zeroes out funding for the Nevada nuclear waste repository at both agencies.
DOE asked NRC to suspend the licensing process that's been under way since June 2008, and said it will ask to withdraw the license within 30...
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Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is pushing several bills to regulate the wind energy industry in his state.
Among them, a $3 per megawatt hour excise tax, and a temporary suspension of eminent domain powers to merchant energy companies that want to connect wind turbines to the electrical grid.
The governor also wants to retool the Wyoming Industrial Information and Siting Act to include...
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An aide who was key in steering the Waxman-Markey climate bill through the House is leaving Capitol Hill.
Gerry Waldron was the staff director and chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Chairman Ed Markey's office says Waldron is returning to private law practice in...
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Another coal controversy is now taking a new turn.
Late last night, a Virginia town gave the go-ahead for zoning changes to allow what would be the state's largest coal-fired power plant.
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative wants to build a 1,500-megawatt coal-fired plant at an estimated cost of up to $6 billion in tiny Dendron...
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat says 55 nations representing 78% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions have affiliated with the Copenhagen Accord.
The Accord specifies that countries will undertake the actions to which they commit by today, February 1. Developed nations file quantified economy-wide emissions reduction targets, while...
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Spanish company GA Solar is investing $1 billion in New Mexico.
That money will develop a 300-MW photovoltaic plant GA Solar will build about 100-miles east of Albuquerque. The company expects to complete...
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will visit the proposed site of the Cape Wind project tomorrow, touring the planned sites for wind turbines on Nantucket Sound and meeting with tribal officials from the region who oppose them.
Salazar has promised to rule by March 1 on whether the offshore wind project will go...
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The largest U.S. nuclear generator is now joining the largest clean coal project.
Exelon says it will join the FutureGen Alliance, an international effort to build a commercial-scale coal plant to test carbon capture and storage...
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The International Monetary Fund says it plans to help poorer countries fight the impact of climate change.
IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, over the weekend that IMF will put $100 billion a year into a Green Fund.
Because developing countries do not have the money to meet adaptation measures...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he's considering creating a $1 billion fund to boost electricity production.
His nation is now struggling with energy shortages.
In December, Venezuela started rationing electricity and water. The government warned of a widespread collapse of the electricity grid if the...
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Two days after the United States announced its emissions goals under the Copenhagen Accord, its neighbor to the north says, "me, too."
Canada submitted its target to the United Nations on Saturday, and it's the same as the U.S. goal --17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
Environment Minister Jim Prentice says Canada wants a binding international treaty that builds on...
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The Obama Administration's fiscal 2011 budget proposal, being released today, includes higher spending for development of "clean energy" technologies and elimination of "tax preferences" for the oil, gas and coal industries.
That's according to Peter Orzag, director of the White House Office of Management & Budget.
Orzag said clean energy research would rise more than $6 billion under the proposal, while...
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