Kansas

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.

Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by a tornado in 2007.  Only a week later, the town had already started working on plans to become the greenest town in the U.S. 

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced awards totaling more than $76 million in funding to support energy-efficiency building technology programs and training for commercial building equipment technicians, building operators, and energy auditors.

20 communities have been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to share $60 million in funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.

While real estate prices are on the rise in some areas, there is one kind of land that no one wants no matter where it is: contaminated land.

These sites are usually former mines or landfills that have been identified as either contaminated or potentially contaminated.

Those in the clean energy industry continue to play the waiting game in the policy arena.  The question remains as what type of, if any, energy and climate change legislation will be put into action in the US in 2010. 

A new study by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has revealed that U.S. wind resources are far greater than previously believed.

Thanks in part to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, a shift in biofuel production to cellulosic biofuels is underway as both demonstration and commercial-scale power plants are opening or moving closer to completion.

The main thrust of the recent Central Penn Business Journal's "Energy Symposium 2010" was simple: companies should be smarter about energy usage.

Fifty vendors, more than 500 attendees and seven keynote speakers took part in the event at the Radisson Hotel and Convention Center in Pennsylvania’s East Pennsboro Township.

Millions of dollars of relief may never reach Haitians in time unless roadways, relief camps, hospitals and distribution areas can operate past dark. Sol, Inc. is helping to solve the problem by donating some of its solar power street lights to the earthquake-stricken island.