According to the Washington Examiner yesterday, President Obama's campaign team is going "on the offensive to promote [the President's] support for clean coal."

I share that fear with this resident. It is a fear that each of these spills is happening and being forgotten -- labelled as an isolated incident and not the epidemic it has become. In this latest spill that dumped between 160,000 and half a million litres of oil into Red Deer River, there is a little victim that is unforgettable.

A meeting of international climate treaty negotiators in Tianjin, China this week is livening up with the United States threatening to pursue an alternate process to the one set up by the United Nations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Ch

A failed US climate bill and a stalled international treaty does not mean that nobody is doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the years while world leaders and bureaucrats have fiddled, cities around the world have been the champions when it comes to adopting tough measures to reduce their carbon footprints.

According to Xinhua, China's official news agency, the country plans to have in place 100 gigawatts of wind power capacity by 2020 and expand its renewable energy capacity to 40% of the domestic energy market by 2050.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $8.5 million in funding for 53 projects that support the development of a robust US wind energy sector and the US Administration's goal of generating 20% of US electricity from wind power by 2030.

If there's one thing we know about the Middle East is that it gets a lot of sunlight. And this relentless solar pounding on the region's deserts positions the Middle East as a major player in solar power generation.