But along with its usual business of pulp-making, the century-old mill is doing something unprecedented: Developing technology to produce bio-butanol,...

DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of bi...

As Congress, the administration and the private sector look for ways to reduce our consumption of imported oil, we should not overlook the most readil...

The Department of the Interior's move last month to accelerate development of large-scale solar power plants on federal land in six Western states cou...

Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae -- organisms in water that range from pond s...

The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Thursday it has given up plans to build an additional coal-fired unit. Its biggest customer -- the city...

The idea to tap solar power from the Sahara desert to provide CO2-free electricity for Europe and northern Africa has captured the public's imaginatio...

The Department of Energy said it plans to unlock $3.3 billion in federal stimulus grants, of up to $200 million apiece, to companies and utilities to ...

While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation's grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now be...

More than 218-million-dollars in federal stimulus funds are being made available to Texas for public sector energy improvements....

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...

There is a big push in the Big Easy for dramatically improving energy efficiency in homes and public buildings....

A year after its opening, the building housing the Mark Miller Toyota-Scion dealership in downtown Salt Lake City has received a Gold LEED certificati...

On Tuesday, June 30, the Korean automaker is launching a summer promotion that guarantees buyers of its vehicles one year's worth of gas at $1.49 per ...

Toyota Motor, the world's top automaker, plans to roll out a fuel-cell car by 2015 in its push to stay ahead in the global race for green autos, vice ...

A local nonprofit that has developed a method for turning rice straw and wood waste into diesel fuel has attracted some big business backers....

The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday that a federal auction of land leases tied to geothermal power development has generated more than $9 milli...

President Obama should spend some time in his own back yard rubbing shoulders with the oil workers of Montana and North Dakota checking on the progres...

It's been a long time coming, but green energy business are about to get their promised boost from the economic stimulus package that President Obama ...

That's right, forget all about that smoggy past--the new, green GM is here to stay. It looks like the auto giant is about to undergo some serious rebr...

Cellulose-loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover....

Lot sales are underway at The Bridges, a community near Lincoln that will be the first Nebraska subdivision to be completely heated and cooled by geot...

Alaska Airlines has joined Boeing Co.'s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, which the aerospace giant formed to accelerate the commercialization of...

A fully costed map for how Australia could reduce greenhouse gas emissions "at emergency speed" will be developed with the backing of former US vice-p...