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Boomtown: The State of U.S. Energy Production in 4 Charts
Source: Thinkstock Energy is the backbone of the American economy, and of the whole world, really. Without reliable, cost-effective sources of energy, all the economic systems in the world would...
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How Energy from Biofuels Can Match Crude Oil Levels
Source: Thinkstock The beauty of biofuels is that they don’t pollute. After that, things can get ugly. First, biofuel, an oil made from plant tissues, doesn’t generate as much energy as an equal amount...
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How Can Mining and Renewable Energy Work Together?
Source: Thinkstock Mining companies are often seen as dinosaurs when it comes to making changes that will benefit the environment, but that perception may be shifting as some companies turn to...
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Once Mighty Hydropower Falls Behind Other Renewables
ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images For decades, hydropower has been the chief source of clean and renewable energy in the United States, but new federal statistics show that it’s about to be eclipsed by...
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Cheaper, Cleaner, and Safer: How Hydrogen Could Replace Oil
Joel Saget/Getty Images Scientists have been taking cues from nature for years, but few breakthroughs are potentially this important. In an effort to seek out clean, renewable energy sources, a team...
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Standard Oil Heirs Join Movement to Divest Fossil Fuels
Spencer Platt/Getty Images The movement against investing in fossil fuels has reached a critical mass, with more than 800 individuals and institutions promising to rid their portfolios of $50 billion...
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Despite Rising Voice of Climate Movement, Global Leaders Dither
Andrew Burton/Getty Images The largest ever gathering for climate action took place in New York on September 21, just two days ahead of major negotiations on a climate treaty between global leaders at...
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How Bright Is the Solar Industry’s Future?
Source: Thinkstock The solar energy industry has come a long way in the past decade. The industry is now among the fastest growing in the United States, and according to Rhone Resch, president and CEO...
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Fed Up With Federal Inaction, States Act Alone on Cap-and-Trade
Source: Thinkstock Unsatisfied with the pace at which the federal government is acting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, several U.S. states and a few Canadian provinces are forging ahead with their...
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How Big Business Can Lead in Fighting Climate Change
Andrew Burton/Getty Images As sea levels rise, summers become hotter and hotter, and droughts devastate many states across the country, our nation’s leaders have still by and large refused to act. In...
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Epic Drought Impacting California’s Clean Energy Goals
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California has just entered its fourth year of drought – a slow-rolling crisis that is showing no signs of abating. All of California is now affected, with more than half...
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Big Oil and Renewables: Not So Strange Bedfellows
Spencer Platt/Getty Images In most conversations about energy, the topic of Big Oil versus renewables usually becomes a zero-sum game. Renewable advocates accuse Big Oil of conspiring to shut out wind,...
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Gas Prices Are Falling, But Solar Energy Is Set to Take Over
Source: Thinkstock 2016 is going to be an incredibly pivotal year for a lot of reasons, and the future of clean, renewable energy in America is just one of them. Why 2016? That’s the year that the...
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Renewable Energy Will Allow Communist Party of China to Hold On to Power
Source: Thinkstock News about the U.S.-China climate change deal was met with an equal measure of praise and doubt. Many observers cheered the fact that the world’s two largest economies had come...
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British Wind Farms Generate More Electricity Than the Grid Can Handle
Nata Rass/Getty Images Wind farms often are dismissed as a Quixotic idea for generating electricity. Some even argue that every turbine should be equipped with a conventional power plant in case the...
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10 Most Energy Efficient States in America
CHICAGO – SEPTEMBER 01: Solar photovoltaic panels generate electricity at an Exelon solar power facility on September 1, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. The 10-megawatt facility located on the city’s south...
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Waste-to-Energy Could be Long-Term Renewable Solution
On a recent business trip to Edmonton in northern Canada, I was surprised to find, amid the bales of recycled materials and heavy equipment pushing around mountains of trash, a large facility that...
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A New Report Is Destroying Biofuel Claims
Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images Despite their promise over the past decade or so, biofuels have been found to be a very inefficient way to generate energy, are bad for the environment, and even contribute...
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The World’s 10 Biggest Solar Farms
Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images Solar power may have its critics, with many pointing out the intermittency limitation compared to traditional energy stalwarts like coal, oil and gas. But there...
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7 Apple Revelations From Tim Cook’s Goldman Sachs Talk
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As he has in previous years, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently participated in the annual Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. At the conference, Cook...
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