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Milpitas, an East Bay, CA city, is trying to create its own power source. Essentially, they would allow homeowners to pay for their solar installations the same way they pay for their sidewalks. The city raises capital upfront...
Dow Chemical has been brewing up solar products for a few years now. In 2007, the old-hat chemical giant received $20 million in federal funding to develop new solar innovations. This year, Dow released a silicone protective...
As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a...
Melanie Sloan, a soot-covered lab technician, is trying to boil water to help save lives. But Ms. Sloan isn’t concerned with the liquid. On a recent day, she’s in her lab steadily shoving firewood into a pipe-like stove that is...
The moment oil came spewing out of the Lucas No. 1 well at Spindletop on Jan. 10, 1901, Texas’ economy was forever wrenched from its agricultural roots and thrust into the Industrial Age of the 20th century. Today, nearby...
In Houston, the Texas Medical Center is expanding so quickly that it will soon become the seventh largest downtown in the US. By itself. The hospital complex brims with restaurants, shops, and hotels, and employs 100,000 people...
GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY -- In this nation that embraced one of the world's most aggressive campaigns against global warming, the Pokropp family can almost hear the cha-ching when switching off their lights.
Colorado Governor Paid $1.1 Million To Lobby State Lawmakers; Contracts Under Review (AP) DENVER (AP) - At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors...
gases and does not adversely affect the environment, it is aggressively being developed and put to use. Also, since wind turbines do not depend on fuel for operation, variations in fuel and oil supplies and prices do not have...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that aims to add 20,000 MW of power in India by 2022. “The Cabinet has sanctioned Rs.4,337 crore for the initial activities in this ...
