Demand for energy resources in the rest of the world, and especially developing nations, is growing rapidly. Like Willie Sutton robbing banks because "that's where the money is," emerging economic powers like China and India are racing to secure the oil, coal, and natural gas they use because that's where...

By JOSHUA FREED, Associated Press

Frontier Airlines could soon be up for sale.

Known to travelers as the airline with pictures of animals on the tails of its planes, Frontier has lost $102.4 million this year. Smaller planes have been jettisoned and unprofitable flights cut by its owner, Republic Airways,...

Today, most advanced economies and many emerging ones, including China, Brazil and India are pulling out the stops to claim a large share of the $2.3 trillion global clean energy market. American companies can compete in virtually any sector of the economy if we put our minds, policies and resources...

The gas price debate in the U.S. is a lot like the movie Groundhog Day. Fourteen times over the last 25 years, we have woken to gas prices in the United States have jumped by at least 5% between the months of March and June. Each time, Americans feel more...

The United States is engaged in a fierce global economic competition to capture a share of the $2.3 trillion clean energy market. For the countries that seize this moment, clean energy will translate into new economic growth and businesses and a large share of the 20.4 million new jobs the...

Taking House Republicans at face value on their pledge to cut 20% of all non-defense discretionary spending, we took a quick look at what cuts might mean for America's ability to compete in the $2 trillion clean energy market. While there are certainly areas of the nation's energy budget that...

Flights attendants are joining pilots in getting to skip the new enhanced security procedures at airports.

The Transportation Security Administration confirmed the change on Tuesday after The Associated Press asked about it.

In 1969, when UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent the first Internet message from his laboratory, and for years after, companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix were not even imaginable. Back then, DARPA, NIST, FCC and NASA were the drivers of the nascent Internet.

What does this tell us?...

Is the U.S. missing the boat on clean energy? While our investment has actually declined in recent years, China is going "all-in."

We're certainly hearing a lot about how China's placing a much larger bet on clean energy than the US. That got us thinking, what does this bet...

What if we could build a power plant that could provide electricity to tens of thousands of homes with zero carbon emissions? What if we could build it to have a footprint a fraction of the size of existing nuclear reactors? What if we could link a few of them...

China today is driven by one number: eight. That's the annual percentage growth in GDP China needs to lift the more than one-third of its population still mired in poverty into the middle class. That's 600 million people in a country of 1.3 billion.

And how does China plan...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Midwest Airlines name is going away.

Republic Airways Holdings Inc., which owns both Midwest and Frontier Airlines, said on Tuesday that it will use the Frontier name for its traditional airline business. The name of the company remains Republic, and it will continue to run feeder carriers...

The only story that has been able to distract from Tiger Wood's personal life this past week has been what is happening in Copenhagen. The tally thus far:

193 nations in attendance,
Over 250 protestors arrested
Zero agreements.

With President Obama and other heads of...

Whether it was steel, the railroad, the automobile, or the Internet, America's leadership in technological innovation has made it the world's economic power for the last 100 years. Today, we're on the brink of the next revolution with the transition to clean energy. Of course, new technologies inevitably push old...

In 1798, a new federal agency began its life in a one-room laboratory to provide health care for merchant sailors. It covered the costs of this service by sending a single clerk from across the country to collect 20 cents per month from each sailor. This agency, originally the Merchant...