Energy

By Peter Lehner It should come as no surprise that fossil fuel companies are trying to discredit their biggest competitors: the clean energy industry. Together with their allies in Congress, they are trying to ...

By Jordan Howard U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced the federal government will move forward with plans to accept applications to develop wind facilities off the coast of Rhode Island. &...

After a slow start to a program allowing people to sell renewable energy to Hawaii's power grid, it's being revamped to attract more interest and reduce the state's dependence on imported oil. (more…)...

Creating energy from renewable sources is just one part of the challenge. Storing the energy so it can used how and when it’s needed – that’s every bit as important. Which is what led the California Energy Comm...

George Mulley, a retired investigator with the Office of the Inspector General at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, leans across a footstool in his suburban Virginia home and pores over a draft of the last inv...

An alternative energy project off the Sonoma County coast that local officials just two years ago hailed as a way to increase renewable energy sources has come to a quiet end. (more…)...

The Osaka, Japan-based maker and developer of globally-distributed electronic products for consumer, business and industrial use has developed thermoelectric tubes that the company says can be used for geotherm...

 Stellar Solar, one of California's leading commercial and residential solar integrators since 1998, continues on its pace to install an impressive 6 megawatts of combined commercial and residential s...

By Steven Hoffer H2O, anyone? The following image is an artist's interpretation of the massive quasar, compliments of NASA. Astronomers have discovered a reservoir containing 140 trillion times the amount...

By MATTHEW BROWN Montana environmental regulators have asked Exxon Mobil to justify its estimate for how much oil spilled into the Yellowstone River, citing the company's changing timeline on how long it t...