Texas lawmakers in both parties are seeking legal protection for oil refiners and others that fear exposure to costly lawsuits if EPA allows an increase in the amount of...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday gave the green light to the first two big solar power plants to be built on federal land in the California desert, promising more...
AP - Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people...
AP - Members of a federal panel investigating the cause of the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and oil spill and how to improve safety and oversight accused rig owner...
Environmentalists are bracing for a renewed fight with lawmakers and the petroleum industry over whether the U.S. military should be allowed to meet its massive fuel...
You’ve heard of smart grids, but what about smart solar panels? Today, Portland-based startup Azuray Techologies announced a partnership with solar panel maker Suntech to...
AFP - China on Tuesday told the United States and other rich nations to "dramatically" improve their greenhouse gas emission targets, blaming the countries for...
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two research pioneers working on graphene, a material that could have myriad high-tech applications, which they first...
AP - Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama's house. The most famous residence in America, which has already boosted its green credentials by planting a...
When Silicon Valley's elite gathered at Google's headquarters in August to rally opposition to Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would suspend the...
A winner of the Progressive Automotive X-Prize could be rolling into some, but not many, driveways as early as next year. AC Propulsion and Peraves AG have signed a letter...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers are seeking to dilute the requirement to blend increasing amounts of ethanol into the nation's motor fuel mix, aiming to...
Federal subsidies for corn ethanol have long been considered untouchable in Washington — not least because politicians want the votes of Iowans, who have traditionally...
The Senate on Thursday gave a split decision on federal subsidies for ethanol, handily voting to immediately do away with an existing blender tax credit while leaving the...
Two Republican senators from agricultural states attacked an amendment on Monday offered by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) that would eliminate about $6 billion in tax credits...
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) are teaming up in a new push to end tax credits that support the domestic ethanol industry.The pair — reviving a...
The House early Saturday approved an Oklahoma Republican’s amendment to federal spending legislation that would thwart EPA from proceeding with a program to allow use of...
Fifteen trade organizations signed a letter to the leadership of the US House of Representatives supporting a measure by Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.) that would bar the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from U.S. oil companies and refiners against the Environmental Protection Agency for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. automakers and engine makers sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday over its decision to allow higher blends of ethanol for newer...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate leaders have not decided whether to allow a vote on an amendment to cut the U.S. ethanol tax credit by 20 percent that would be part of a...
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency's Renewable Fuel...
The ethanol industry is eying the likely extension of the Bush tax cuts as a potential vehicle for extending key ethanol tax credits. (See our lame-duck preview for more...
