LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm prepared to leave Monday for a five-day trade mission to Japan amid concerns that lawmakers hadn't reached an agreement to require Michigan's electric utilities to shift at ...

Hurricane Ike flooded thousands of homes, blew out countless high-rise windows and left millions without electricity Saturday as authorities launched a massive search-and-rescue effort for people stranded by ...

Democrats sought on Saturday to drum up support for compromise legislation on offshore drilling, challenging Republicans to break from Bush administration policies that neglect development of alternative energy ...

Colorado State University is joining the quest for carbon neutrality. Thursday, CSU President Larry Penley said the school would focus initially on reducing energy use and employing renewable energy ...

A solar thermal plant in California generates electricity. Almost 70 years ago, as Germany invaded France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received an urgent visit from Vannevar Bush, then chairman of the ...

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson are urging Congress to renew tax credits designed to help renewable energy companies.

In a bid to reduce the country's huge oil import bill, the government after much deliberation on Thursday gave its nod to National Policy on Biofuels besides giving approval for setting up of National Bio-fuel ...

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an order Thursday that will allow a Kansas-based company to build transmission lines in the state.

Everyday alternative energy scene is garnering bigger and important space in newspapers and industrial lives. People are feeling the need for greener energy and cleaner environment. Some researchers are focusing their attention on one of the ancient living organisms, the cyanobacteria. (more…)

Both candidates for U.S. Senate in North Carolina raced Wednesday to declare their support for offshore drilling, just three months after the two opposed the idea because of concerns it might harm the ...