When finished it'll provide three times the power of the current largest US wind facility and, if all goes according to plan, there could be more mega wind farms to come. Community concerns with altered views, nearby airport worries about flight pat...

by Daniel J. Weiss. This article was cross-posted from the Center for American Progress . The Senate has taken Americans on an energy and climate roller coaster over the past year as Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and others at...

Southern California Edison (SCE) is spreading the renewable energy love with its new solar rooftop project. The company recently awarded contracts to 36 independent power producers to help install solar arrays on 31 rooftops and five ground-based sit...

Eco Factor: Discarded car batteries to store power during off-peak hours. Japanese automaker Nissan believes that owners of electric cars might soon be able to power their homes using discarded electric car batteries. On an average a battery at the ...

Reuters - The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A company operating a pipeline that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of oil into a southern Michigan river said Wednesday that it is doubling its work force on the containment and cleanup effort. Michigan - Oil spill - Environment - Pipeline transpor...

Against the odds, the BP chief executive has got his life back 'Was Tony Hayward right, after all?" These are words I would never have expected to read, least of all in the US, where BP's chief executive is hated as a bogeyman; yet they were indeed ...

Reuters - The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Eco Factor: Concept robots purify oily water. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has triggered the development of schemes that can protect the environment if such disasters happen in future. While some people are proposing use of dispersants or hay , the ...

AP - Texas environmental regulators have formally proposed beefing up regulations on oil and gas drilling, in an attempt to reduce air pollution caused when companies use new technology to extract natural gas trapped in deep shales.