The main U.N.-appointed panel that regulates supply of global carbon offsets could this week decide whether to approve rules that would lead to the award of millions of...
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Outgoing ARPA-E head Majumdar resigns from DOE
Arun Majumdar, a top Energy Department official, will leave the agency next month, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday.Majumdar will step down as head of the Energy...
White House threatens veto over NOAA, NASA funding
The U.S. House of Representatives today begins work on passing a 2013 spending bill that includes robust funding for the National Science Foundation—but the White House is...
Microsoft pledges to be carbon neutral starting this Summer
Microsoft is joining a growing number of tech companies that want to do something about their growing carbon emissions due to power hungry data centers and office...
GOP seeks to undercut White House on gas well approvals
Republicans are seeking to prevent the White House from gaining political mileage from Tuesday’s federal approval of as many as several thousand natural gas wells in Utah,...
BrightSource CEO Woolard explains IPO decision
Not every eagerly awaited IPO comes to pass. Three weeks ago, Oakland's BrightSource Energy stunned the clean-tech world by canceling its initial public stock...
Obama presses Congress to extend energy tax incentives
President Obama is urging Congress to extend tax breaks for wind power projects that are slated to expire at year’s end and expand stimulus-law tax incentives for...
IBM's 'building whisperer' sees retrofit boom
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's skyscrapers, many built before World War Two, are showing their age. IBM's "building whisperer," Dave Bartlett, believes...
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