Energy and Climate Change

NorthWestern Energy’s formal solicitation of proposals for wind-power projects Monday won praise from the energy policy director of the Montana Environmental Information Center. Gazette State Bureau "We’re very excited to see the company moving forward…

BURLINGTON, Vermont — The University of Vermont’s embrace of the environmental movement has turned nearly everything on campus green even John Orr’s 1985 blue Mercedes. Associated Press When Orr fuels up the diesel car, he…

A hybrid turbine that generates electricity from coal mine waste could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps one day making coal nearly as clean a fossil fuel as natural gas, according to Australian scientists. (Can Montana incorporate this technology to further increase the economic value of our coal reserves?- Russ)

The Montana Public Service Commission approved a contract Wednesday for a major wind project in Jefferson County but set the price for the electricity so low that the wind-power developer said it isn’t realistic to…

Turbine efficiency and the ability to choose good sites have both improved dramatically. "Now you can produce energy that’s much more economical as well as better for the environment."

PROVO — How’s this for Quixotic? Phillip Green’s eye is tilted toward a windmill at Point of the Mountain, where he wants to determine if enough wind blows to spin the blades on power-generating turbines….

Solar panels are still a rarity in most communities in the United States. You might ask, why are there so few? But given the true economics of solar power today, it makes more sense to…

The private lawsuits have been valuable, Matthews said, because "there is nothing like" litigation to get opposing parties to the table to try to hash out an agreement. "The private lawyers are the ones that are keeping the whole thing honest," Aguirre said.

It´s not quite french fry fuel, but it´s awfully close. State of Idaho officials, local officials and private investors are exploring the possibility of building a plant that would take used cooking oil and convert…

Students proposed a $20.89 "wind energy" fee. The school’s president wants it to be optional. By Dawn Fallik Inquirer Staff Writer Students at Eastern University in Delaware County want their college to be perhaps the…