Energy policy is on hold in Illinois because of Exelon's statement earlier this year that it may have to shut down several nuclear power plants, a state senator said in Chicago Wednesday.
"I don't think anybody knows yet what it is that Exelon may be…
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Reduced cost is the most obvious reason solar energy has blossomed across the United States in the last five years, aided by improved technology, but many factors have contributed to the boom, system installers and manufacturers said in Chicago…
Scientists are scrambling to develop efficient, reliable batteries that can make solar and wind power less dependent on fossil-fuel back up, but an efficient miniature power plant may beat batteries to the punch, panelists at a smart-grid symposium…
by Jeff McMahonWhen he was a young monk in Vietnam, the Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhất Hạnh fell in love with a nun. “As a monk, you are not supposed to fall in love,” he writes, “but sometimes love is stronger than your determination.” Nhất Hạnh…
EPA chief Gina McCarthy told Irish America magazine In an interview published Friday that climate change should be taught in schools, which inspired The Hill to evoke the most abused cliché in journalism:
"The comments from McCarthy, who is the face…
Arizona's largest utility company wants to put solar panels on customer rooftops in a proposal that resembles a proposal made earlier this year by former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who suggested utilities avoid a predicted "death spiral" by getting…
Detroit's Lower East Side, which makes up about a quarter of the city, lost 40 percent of its population between 2000 and 2010, leaving what could have been a wasteland of vacant lots and boarded up homes. But almost simultaneously, the number of…
The state of Ohio allows utilities to take credit for energy efficiency initiatives undertaken by their industrial customers, even when the utility is not involved.
As a result, when data crunchers from Ceres set out to compare the energy-efficiency…
The Environmental Protection Agency has upgraded its RadNet system for detecting radioactive fallout, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General reported today, two years after the inspector general criticized the agency for lapses in management and…
The Environmnental Protection Agency's inspector general defended Friday his right to investigate pollution risks from hydraulic fracturing, after a posse of Republican senators from petroleum-rich states questioned his authority.
Senators Ted Cruz…
