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"The failure to extend and expand the ecoENERGY program will slow wind energy development and reduce our ability to compete with the United States," a wind industry representative said.

While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state's two biggest utilities to install the technology.

A new agricultural technology that cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while boosting rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and other poor nations.

Syncrude, the Canadian oil sands giant, is defending itself against criminal charges for the deaths of thousands of birds in one of its tailings ponds.

Starting in 2011, California will regulate emissions from electric utility equipment of the gas sulfur hexafluoride -- or SF6 -- which is used in high voltage transmission systems in circuit breakers, switches and insulation.

Biologists in central California reported finding the first such egg at Pinnacles National Monument in more than a century.

The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement.

Speaking at a nuclear energy conference in Washington Tuesday, representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggested that a new, long-term policy on nuclear waste storage was sorely needed.

Hundreds of homeowners are complaining that their newly installed "smart" electric meters are inaccurately raising their electric bills.

Florida’s plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.

A severe drought is forcing the country -- which is heavily reliant on hydropower for its electricity needs -- to explore alternatives.

The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.

Researchers at I.B.M. and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have discovered a new way to make plastics that can be continuously recycled or developed for novel uses in health care and microelectronics.

An Australian company appears ready to build a $3.5 billion hydroelectric plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo to power a $5 billion dollar aluminum smelter.

The Energy Department last week defended its distribution of stimulus funding to some foreign developers of renewable energy projects, saying the grants were creating American jobs.

A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.

Researchers said they found a way to break down lignocellulose, the basic structural material of all plants, to make fuel from crop waste.

The groups sued the European Commission for failing to release studies investigating the impact of biofuels on the environment. The commission says the legal action was premature.

A new analysis aims to quantify how much of each nation's carbon dioxide consumption is produced locally and how much is "embedded" in imported goods.

The technology giant aims to develop smart grid software for deployment in China -- and eventual expansion to the global market.