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President Barack Obama's landmark bill on energy and global warming squeaked through the House this week only after the White House made dozens of concessions to coal, manufacturing and other interests.

Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.

Sen. Harry Reid speaks at a June 29 press conference at UNLV about solar initiatives in the southwest United States.

Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he will remain in the company's top job at least through the 2011 launch of its second model, an electric sedan known as the Model S. Musk, an entrepreneur whose ventures, in addition to Tesla, include space exploration company SpaceX and solar power company Solar City, said staying on as ...

After a long winter's chill, the inhabitants of Latvia's capital are ready to recharge in the summer sunshine Jul 02, 2009 04:30 AM Comments on this story Gaston Lacombe RIGA, Latviaa 'Already at 4 a.m., the sun pokes me in the eye.

About 30 miles from Albany, N.Y., on a hidden parcel of land in Chatham sits a new, 'old' panelized construction-built farmhouse using sustainable green materials and systems and accented with salvaged lumber and other recycled materials.

The bill passed Friday by the House: Aims to reduce greenhouse gases by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% by 2050 through a cap-and-trade program that allows pollution permits to be bought and sold.

A 32,699-acre tract of western Amargosa Valley, just east of U.S. Ecology, is one of 24 solar energy zones in the Southwest that will receive intense scrutiny for a fast track environmental analysis.

A Portland, Indiana-based company says it has developed a solar power breakthrough that will allow homes and businesses to use the sun more efficiently as an energy source.

China is aiming for an installed solar power capacity of 2 gW by 2011, nearly a 15-fold jump from the 140 mW capacity it had at the end of last year, according to people familiar with the matter.

An employee fills a customer's tank at a petrol pump in Kolkata. Reuters First Published : Last Updated : NEW DELHI: The government needs to end controls on prices of petrol and diesel to curb fuel demand, the finance ministry said in its annual economic survey on Thursday.

The House legislation calls for: Reducing greenhouse gases by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 through a cap-and-trade program that allows pollution permits to be bought and sold.

The number of jobs in America's emerging green energy grew at a rate two and a half times faster than jobs overall between 1998 and 2007, according to a report released last week by the Pew Charitable Trust.

A recent report suggests New Hampshire has been slow in the creation of "clean energy" businesses, but one local company has been hailed as a shining example of the possibilities for the industry here.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks during a roundtable discussion on alternative energy in Las Vegas today.

The first aircraft designed to run exclusively on solar power was introduced near Zurich, Switzerland after spending six years in stealthy development.

Dennis Gordon, left, and Scott Hamilton, right, of Horizon Energy Systems installs the 3.8 k.w 27 solar energy panels at the home of Marco Paganinni in San Jose Thursday, August 17, 2006, Despite the worst economic downturn in decades, California's multibillion-dollar program to expand solar power production - the country's largest - remains on ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, in conjunction with the Department of Energy, this week released six maps that could help determine the location of the next big push in solar energy.

Venture capital investment in green technology worldwide jumped 43 percent in three months to $1.2 billion in the second quarter, Greentech reported Tuesday.

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