Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis discusses the former LSI site and the potential for its use by companies in the solar industries.

Seventy-five years ago, during the height of the Great Depression, one of the largest public works projects of the New Deal began to take shape on the banks of the Columbia River in eastern Washington.

Amid the daily drumbeat of mass layoffs, here's some sunny news: Solar startup Suniva cut the ribbon Thursday on a photovoltaic cell factory outside Atlanta.

Dec 14, 2008 4:18 pm US/Eastern Massachusetts is accelerating its production of renewable energy, for the first time giving electric companies the chance to buy more green power than they are required to under ...

European Parliament negotiators approved a landmark climate change deal reached by European Union leaders, tweaking the text ahead of a vote by the full legislature next week.

Some U.S. labor groups that have long feared environmental campaigns as a threat to American jobs are starting to see advantages in going green.

This evolution was clear at this week's U.N. climate talks in Poland, where several American labor groups and environmental activists made joint appeals for policies that would promote high-tech renewable energy as the answer to both climate change and job losses.

About 25 representatives of U.S. unions were in Poznan _ about twice the number at last year's U.N. talks in Bali, Indonesia _ representing workers from the electrical, transit, steel, service and other sectors.

NEW Zealand government moves to dismantle several environment-friendly energy policies adopted by the ousted government may cost jobs and kill a fledgling industry, a former Cabinet minister said on Friday.

Kevin Rudd: 'By shortening the fund's life, the environment and the economy benefit' Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has laid the ground work for tomorrow's carbon pollution reduction scheme announcement by ...

A corporation started by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is working with a Boston company to develop a wind farm on the reservation in north central South Dakota.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said he may stage a summit to spur a treaty on climate change as he called for a "Green New Deal" that would both curb global warming and salvage the world economy.