Well, now the Massachusetts-based firm has announced a partnership with BP which it hopes will accelerate the commercialization of the second-generation biofuel.

U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg flew back to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to join fellow House Republicans to stump for emergency energy legislation.

Computers are far from being truly clean machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their own business operations greener.

A Utah based solar company (IAUS) has begun construction on the first phase of a project they claim could produce electricity for Californians for a cheaper price than either coal or gas. The first solar lenses are being installed near the Great Basin Desert in Eastern California. The unique thin-film lens focuses the sun’s energy, producing super-heated steam for power generation at an efficiency rate of 92%. They can be produced at a fraction of the cost and will be very easy to maintain. IAUS hopes the cost-effective technology will enable solar companies to compete head-to-head with the fossil fuel industry. (more…)

Geoff Ballard, a Canadian pioneer of the fuel cell industry and an entrepreneur Time Magazine once named one of its "Heroes for the Planet," has died.

Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground ...

Middle Eastern oil sheiks move over. There?s a new kid on the energy block! Bio-fuel is the new green, completely clean fuel source. It?s also known as ?agro-fuel? and can be broadly defined as any solid, liquid or gas fuel consisting of or derived from biomass. Biomass is nothing more than materials that were recently living organisms?in this case, plants and their by-products. Even better, it is a renewable energy source, unlike petroleum and coal, which once used are gone forever. Thanks to a new miraculous feat of engineering and science, this energy source has suddenly become competitive with oil, catapulting it from a backyard business into a global economic phenomenon. (more…)

A bipartisan group of Senators calling themselves the "gang of 10" were finally able to package a compromise bill on Friday aimed at breaking the persistent deadlock in the Senate over energy issues.

Green carbon occurs in natural forests, brown carbon is found in industrialized forests or plantations, grey carbon in fossil fuels and blue carbon in oceans.

Virginia's two U.S. senators are asking the government to ease off the federal ethanol mandate to help the state's poultry, dairy and cattle industries.