U.S. Fuel Economy Hit New Highs With 2013 Models
American cars are using less gas per mile and emitting less carbon dioxide than ever before, according to a government analysis released Wednesday. The average fuel economy of 2013 models is 27.6 miles...
View ArticleMethane Hot Spot in U.S. Predates Fracking Boom, Study Says
An area in the U.S. Southwest that’s about half the size of Connecticut has emitted the country’s largest concentration of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a new analysis of satellite...
View ArticleReport Lays Out Five Ways the U.S. Can Cut Emissions While Boosting the Economy
Cutting the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that stoke climate change could save billions in energy costs and boost revenue for the natural gas industry, according to a new report from the World...
View ArticleYour Pants Might Charge Your Phone One Day, Suggests New Tiny-Generator Study
Billing the breakthrough as the “world’s smallest electric generator,” scientists have found a way to translate kinetic energy into power using a material no thicker than a layer of atoms. Researchers...
View ArticleNew Gas Plant Venture Aims at Carbon Capture From a Different Angle
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is often promoted as a way for coal power to be made “clean”: Projects such as the in-progress Kemper power plant in Mississippi and the recently announced Petra Nova...
View ArticleHow to Clean All Those Solar Panels? Get Robots to Do It
With abundant sunlight and plenty of open space, deserts are an obvious place to put large solar arrays, but there’s a downside: lots of dust, and not enough rainfall to wash it off. A buildup on solar...
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Former Coal Mining CEO Faces Prison Over West Virginia Safety Violations
The indictment of a former coal mining CEO over safety violations Thursday sent a “strong message,” said the United Mine Workers of America. Don Blankenship faces four criminal counts and up to 31...
View ArticleKeystone XL Veto Threat: Does ‘No’ Really Mean No?
The White House announced Tuesday that President Barack Obama would veto a Senate bill aimed at greenlighting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. “If this bill passes this Congress, the president...
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Nebraska Ruling Throws Keystone XL Decision Back to State Department
Anti-Keystone activists build a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2013. (Photo courtesy Mary Anne Andrei, Bold Nebraska) The court case that the Obama...
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New U.S. Fracking Rules Earn Disdain from Both Sides—and a Lawsuit
About 36 million acres of public land are under lease for oil and gas development, according to the Department of Interior, which released new rules Friday for fracking on those lands. Shown here:...
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