WASHINGTON, D.C. - Even as some of AmericaÂ’s dirtiest power plants start to clean up their act in terms of certain toxic emissions, the carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution linked to global warming from ...

HALIFAX - Canada^^s Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, and Nova Scotia Minister of the Environment, the Honourable Sterling Belliveau, announced today that they are working towards an ...

ROME, ITALY - Major Italian utility Enel SpA, in partnership with Electricite de France SA EDF, started a market survey back in January to evaluate the abilities of the Italian firms involved in the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Diplomats from the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters including the United States, China and India are taking part in a forum at the U.S. State Department aimed at getting a U ...

BURNT HILLS, NEW YORK - Some U.S. energy experts say the push to lower the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs has led manufacturers to use cheap components. "Somebody decides to save a little ...

WARREN, MICHIGAN - General Motors Co. said it will spend $8 million to double the size of its suburban Detroit lab that engineers and tests electric vehicle batteries. GM said the expansion of the ...

DALLAS, TEXAS - Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc., a provider of corporate, industrial and residential security solutions, announces today that its subsidiary, SYSTEMSgroup Protective Services, ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - Police say a Toronto man is facing charges of illegally trying to export nuclear technology following a joint Canada-U.S. investigation. In a release, the RCMP allege the man tried ...

GREENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - American Electric Power and Allegheny Energy, Inc. announced a schedule change for their proposed transmission project. The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH), ...

HOUSTON, TEXAS - Two utility groups, including units of Southern Co and SCANA Corp, said they filed applications for separate licenses to build and operate new nuclear reactors in Georgia and South ...

EUROPEAN UNION - France and Italy urged the European Union to impose carbon tariffs on countries that are not part of a global agreement to curb greenhouse gases, an idea opposed by other EU members.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new patents pending solar energy system will soon make it possible to produce electricity at a wholesale cost of 5 cents per kWh (kilowatt hour). This price is competitive with ...