Of planes, trains, and automobiles, only one can accommodate America's growing need for urban and intercity transportation, according to a panel of transportation officials who gathered in Chicago Wednesday.
Transportation officials from Chicago,…
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A tiff over the true cost of energy-efficient lightbulbs stumbled Tuesday into Senate chambers, where Republicans grilled Energy Secretary Steven Chu over his department's favorite new bulb—a Philips LED that retails for about $50.
Chu was testifying…
The world's pioneering climate scientists doubted humans were causing the changes they noticed in the Arctic, a Swedish environmental historian said in Chicago Friday—and so climate scientists themselves were among the first to resist emerging…
After briefly considering ways the Artic might be peacefully shared, governments have again begun eying the thawing region more strategically, both for new shipping lanes and for increasingly accessible resources, a Swedish historian said in Chicago…
Two dozen members of Parliament from all major parties have formed an informal committee to study the potential of thorium reactors, according to a thorium advocacy group led by a member of the House of Lords.
Baroness Bryony Worthington, a Labour…
An innovative algae biofuels company favored by Obama's Energy Department was also once a darling of Dow Chemical.
But Florida's Algenol Biofuels ended its partnership with Dow in 2010, shifting its pilot project from Dow facilities in Freeport,…
Clean air regulations cost the United States about $21 billion per year in lost productivity, a University of Chicago economist said this afternoon.
But the benefits of environmental regulation—improved health, reduced infant mortality, increased…
Electric and hybrid-electric cars enjoyed the limelight last March, when President Obama called for all new federal vehicles to run on alternative fuels by 2015. Eleven months later, it looks like new cars in the federal fleet will still burn fossil…
President Obama's reference to algae in his Thursday energy speech drew flak over the weekend from Newt Gingrich, who called it "weird" before calling algal biofuel "a terrific concept." But Obama had political reasons to promote algae in Florida,…
In the next decade, LED lights will capture more than half of the world's demand for new lighting, the author of a study on green economic opportunities said last night at a University of Chicago forum.
Robert Weissbourd, the president of…
