Vice President Joe Biden blasted Republicans Friday for criticizing the Obama administration's efforts to invest in clean energy. You hear some people say it is anti-business.
Japan will consider the use of smart grid technologies as it forms a new energy policy following the nuclear crisis in Fukushima prefecture, the government's top spokesman said.
Over the next two years, utility companies in the state will be rolling out 'smart grid' technology, which will include bringing smart meters to every home and business in the state.
Jewish donors and fund-raisers are warning the Obama reelection campaign that the president is at risk of losing financial support because of concerns about his handling of Israel.
Yes, it's true that making solar panels creates carbon dioxide, but over the life of a solar installation it produces on average of 30x less CO2 than coal power.
This post is an installment in a series about the state of American climate skepticism. I'll be expanding upon the ideas put forward in my recent Slate piece, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds?, so read that first. Photo:
"I was shot at close range with a high-velocity metal tear gas canister... When it hit me, it tore off a part of my scalp," says Christopher Whitman, a 25-year-old American student and activist who was seriously injured when he was shot by Israeli forces while attending a West Bank protest on Friday
The U.S Department of Energy is backing the construction of one of the largest planned concentrated photovoltaic solar power plants. Concentrated solar power plants have only been constructed on small scales thus far. Even this one, which is 30 MW (i.e. 30,000 kW or 30 million watts) is not very
This post is an installment in a series about the current state of American climate skepticism. I'll be expanding upon the ideas put forward in my recent Slate piece, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds?, so read that first.
Biofuels may pollute the environment much more heavily if the process used to make them isn't done in the right way, researchers say. Conventional fossil fuels may sometimes be much "greener" than their biofuel counterparts, according to a new study.
The head of Munich-based Siemens AG's U.S. unit said he is unhappy that federal energy policymakers in Washington are no longer focusing on climate change.
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YES: Nuclear recycling will reduce risk of stockpiled fuel. By Nolan E. Hertel By now there should be no doubt that something ought to be done to remove the ever-increasing amount of spent fuel at nuclear power plants across the United States.
TOKYO — Prime Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday that Japan would abandon plans to build more nuclear reactors, saying his country needed to "start from scratch'' in creating a new energy