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Trash To Cash: Mining Landfills For Energy And Profit

A Belgian company is working on removing the raw materials from dumps, making both energy and building materials out of them, and then redeveloping the land. READ»

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DOE's $1 Billion Clean Coal Project Mutates Once Again

The FutureGen clean coal project just won't die. The nearly decade-old project has been killed, reborn, and reshaped so many times that we almost forgot it was still around. But it is--albeit in a less ambitious form.READ»

Florida Town Closes the Loop on Poop Power

What's the best way to deal with waste from 35,000 horses? Turn it into energy, of course. The city of Sanford, Florida, located in a region dubbed the "Horse Capital of the World", is converting wastewater sludge from the ...READ»