Energy and Climate Change

Idaho may become the proving ground for a safer and more efficient kind of nuclear reactor — one that also would produce a non-polluting fuel that could wean America from dependence on foreign oil —…

DES MOINES, Iowa – A power company controlled by billionaire investor Warren Buffett said it plans to build the largest land- based wind farm in the world. By News Wire Reports Rocky Mountain News The…

"Company officials are hoping that by cycling air conditioners on and off during times of peak power demand they will be able to cut down on power use during the summer and save money for customers."

Altering the chemical structure of vegetable oil could make the molecule more resistant to temperature changes and increase its use as a supplement to petroleum-based motor oil in automobiles, scientists said on Monday. A team…

As we wage war in the oil-rich Middle East, we are also painfully investigating the deaths of our peacetime heroes aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Important debates are now under way over the wisdom of…

Joint solicitation by United States Department of Agriculture And the United States Department of Energy (Thanks to Denise DeLuca and Craig Rawlings for passing this along- Russ) March 18, 2003 AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service…

The largest wind farm in the world begins along U.S. 730, just past an abandoned mini-mart and a pot-holed parking lot. Hundreds of white, spindly turbines stretch for miles across the ridges of the Columbia…

A local company had the winning bids for a biomass heating system at a Darby School Board meeting on Monday, a school official said. By BUDDY SMITH Ravalli Republic Staff Reporter Bids were opened that…

It sounds too good to be true: Whisk water-sucking trees from the bosque, harvest the overgrowth from tinder-dry forests, then burn the slag in brand-new power plants that would put paychecks into rural towns. By…

"Building is the biggest use of energy resources on the planet and produces more greenhouse gases than the transportation sector," Van der Ryn says.