Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»
This past April, we spoke with a startup that had a grand plan for an East Coast hydrogen highway. That plan is now one step closer to reality with this week's news that SunHydro has built its first hydrogen fueling station.READ»
Universities need money to perform research, and rich, peak oil-wary petroleum giants need researchers to find more efficient ways to drill for oil. It seems like a reasonable match--but are oil company-sponsored research projects unduly influenced by their sponsors?READ»
Watch out, solar manufacturers: GE may be about to take over your turf. The corporate giant, which has already carved out a spot as one of the world's leading wind turbine suppliers, announced this week that it is moving into the thin film solar business.READ»
After nine years of political wrangling, the $1 billion Cape Wind project signed a lease for sea space in the Nantucket Sound. But don't break out the champagne just yet. READ»
Two California-based projects are the first utility-scale solar installations on federal lands to get the go-ahead from the Bureau of Land Management -- and there are a dozen more to follow.READ»
The explosion last week of a gas transmission line in San Bruno, California has prompted local utility PG&E to release some enjoyable bedtime reading--a list of the 100 riskiest gas line segments in California. READ»
Project Kaisei and Covanta Energy hope to process nonrecyclable plastic waste from the country-sized garbage patch in the Pacific and convert it into diesel.READ»
In the race to develop better biofuels, no self-respecting oil company wants to be left behind. In recent years, we've seen Shell, Exxon, BP, and Chevron invest hundreds of millions in biofuel technology. Statoil, one of the world's ...READ»
Ernst & Young has made it official: China is the most attractive location to put cash in clean technology projects, and the U.S. has slipped to second place.READ»
BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico served as a wake-up call for many of us who never before paid attention to the destructive energy projects happening all around the world. But while Deepwater Horizon may have attracted the lion's share of media attention this past Spring and Summer, there are a number of other toxic projects still going on. We look at some of the worst.READ»
AdAge snagged a rare document laying out how much individual companies are spending on Google search advertising. An unsurprising new entry: BP, spending millions of dollars to rehab its image.READ»
Hydrogen should be a fuel for the car of the future, according to a report by the U.S. National Research Council or NRC. We spoke with Vernon Roan, who chairs the committee for the NRC on hydrogen cars and fuel.READ»
Natural gas is undoubtedly a practical source of electricity generation; it's plentiful, burns relatively clean, and produces minimal carbon dioxide. All good things--unless you happen to live near a drilling site.READ»
