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Open Secrets, a Washington, DC-based lobby watchdog, is reporting that the alternative energy sector spent a record $30 million promoting their industry to lawmakers in the US capitol in 2009. 

While wind and solar get a lot of press in the renewable energy field, some experts believe geothermal offers even more potential. Now the U.S.

Romania, which has set an ambitious target of generating 33% of its power from renewable sources by 2020, primarily wind energy (coal currently fires almost 40% of the country's electricity, with most of the rest coming from burning oil and gas), has begun its alternative energy push wi

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently presented a new study: Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Turkey 2009 Review [pdf].

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to introduce and energy bill today that up until last week contained measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - like a cap-and-trade mechanism and a Renewable Energy Standard.

The Obama Administration has been ramping up various federal government departments’ commitment to renewable energy.

You might assume that the Energy, Interior, and Agriculture departments would be going green, but you might not associate the Department of Defense (DOD) with sustainability.

Looks like the US Congress is going to crack down on the natural gas industry over the nasty process of hydraulic fracturing.

For a number of years, notes ecologist and UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Daniel B.

The only bright spot in four quarters of darkness for alternative energy and clean tech stocks came from the global water sector as mirrored by the Claymore S&P Global Water Index exchanged traded fund (ETF) (NYSE: CGW).