The debate over new Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) buses is heating up. Tonight legendary oilman and billionaire T. Boone Pickens is weighing on a controversial decision to buy compressed natural gas (CNG) or clean diesel vehicles.
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are investing in clean energy, with the electric car their vehicle of choice. While the economic meltdown has crimped immediate sales plans, electric-car manufacturers hope for a thin slice of the $25 billion auto industry bailout being considered by Congress.
A Palo Alto-based company has agreed to build a $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations throughout the San Francisco Bay area. Read comments
The Chevy Volt has a lot riding on it.
WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 20 (UPI) — Southwestern Ontario opponents of what could become the largest wind farm site in Canada raised new concerns the turbines would endanger private airstrips.
Barack Obama, who has spent much of the time since his election closeted with his advisers in Chicago, sent a strong signal today that he intends to make a decisive break with George Bush on environmental policy once he moves into the White House The move was part of a carefully coded series of messages from Obama meant to reassure America and the world about the shape of his …
TGI Solar Power Group Inc., a full turnkey supplier of vertically integrated systems for a variety of applications from Solar Parks to commercial markets, announced today that it established Solar Power Italy Srl to launch a range of solar products and systems for the Italian residential, commercial and solar power plant markets
FRANKFORT - Plans to build an electric car manufacturing plant in Franklin have been short-circuited by the pullout of a major investor.
“Conservation Congress” conjures up an image of a room full of Vermonters drawing up legislation and making decisions on local environmental issues. Against the backdrop of society’s current fixation with climate change and national politics, “conservation” could only mean environmental conservation, and “congress” obviously alludes to decision making and action.
WASHINGTON — Scientists who are seeking new sources of clean energy are trying to mimic the way plants and trees do it, by converting sunlight into fuel. Unlike standard solar panels on rooftops or arrays of solar collectors in the desert, this is a form of “artificial photosynthesis.
