12.24.2008
In the first utility-scale project for the solar panel maker, First Solar Inc. this week announced completion of the nation’s largest “thin film” solar power installation to date, a 10 megawatt facility near Boulder City, Nev., that will be...
12.23.2008 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the nation’s first commercial “hydrokinetic” project at an existing hydropower facility—the installation of two underwater turbines to generate power by harnessing fast-flowing...
12.22.2008 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
In another sign that the wave power firm is gaining momentum, Ocean Power Technologies Inc. announced last week it has joined forces with Australia’s largest project development firm to deploy its electricity-producing buoys off the south and east...
12.18.2008
In controversial changes that the incoming Obama administration will likely try to undo, the Bush administration last week announced new rules that give federal agencies wide latitude to avoid reviewing climate change impacts on endangered or threatened...
12.16.2008 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
President-elect Barack Obama named his expected “green team” to key energy and environmental posts, leaving questions only about his pick to lead the Interior Department—and exactly how much power will be exercised by former Environmental...
12.15.2008 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
POZNAN, Poland—In a diplomatic rumble pitting two heavyweights of the developing world, Brazil and Saudi Arabia squared off last week at the United Nations Climate Change Conference over a Saudi proposal—backed by some developed countries but...
12.12.2008 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
POZNAN, Poland—In a bold signal to the developed world that it is willing to share the burden of tackling climate change, the government of Mexico announced Thursday it will reduce its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent below 2002...
12.12.2008 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Showing new resolve to achieve what has been a difficult goal for some European nations, European Union officials this week said they had reached an informal compromise to set mandatory renewable energy targets for member states to assure that the EU will...
12.08.2008 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Continuing their inexorable growth, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2007 increased by 1.4 percent compared to 2006, spurred by adverse weather conditions that boosted heating and cooling demand and a drop in the availability of hydroelectric generation...
12.05.2008 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
A newly formed coalition of ethanol producers has unleashed a major new offensive to counter claims that expanding use of the corn-based fuelis pushing up food prices, with the group citing surprisingly sharp remarks by the Bush administration’s...
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