Love your ales, pilsners, weissbeers and stouts, but worried about all that fermented grain waste?

Thanks to German researcher Wolfgang Bengel, brew lovers can help create cleaner energy every time they down a pint.

The US Department of Energy has released a second wave of millions in stimulus funding aimed at helping low and middle-income families, across 13 states, save money on energy bills.

Algae absorbs carbon a lot more quickly than trees.

So the slimy green stuff has long been a top candidate for bio-based systems to trap and store CO2, the most abundant greenhouse gas, that is created by, among other things, burning coal -- which supplies close to a third of the world's energy consumption.

The pugnacious morning session of the Senate's energy and climate hearings broke in time for committee members to make it to Al Franken's swearing-in as Minnesota's junior senator.  

A new Vermont law will mandate fixed, favorable, long-term rates for power from small-scale solar, wind and other renewable energy generators.

Sudan, Brazil and Egypt are pooling resources on biofuels projects that could eventually address many of the globe's most pressing problems at once: cleaning up air pollution, improving food security, lessening poverty, and of course, creating new low-carbon sources of liquid fuel energy.

Building off the momentum of recent wins like increased auto fuel efficiency standards, and the House passage of clean energy and climate legislation, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have unveiled new federal standards for energy use by both commercial and home lamps an

Fresh from their July 4th break, the senators of the Environment and Public Works committee made animated opening statements at today's hearing, the first of four called by committee chair Sen.

As of the end of 2008, the total wind energy capacity of the US rose by 50% to 25,170 MW -- enough to power around 7 million homes and equivalent to curbing 44 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. is now first among nations for wind power capacity.  Germany is second, with 23,903 MW at the end of 2008. 

France today moved one step closer to putting a surcharge on energy-gobbling products in order to cut its human-propelled, climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions.    

The world's energy use will jump 44 percent in the next twenty years, with capacity for renewables growing at the fastest rate, according to a new energy forecast by the Energy Information Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy.