United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launchedthe Sustainable Energy for All Initiative and called for the world to double its use of renewable energy by 2030.

Climate change is joining evolution on the list of scientific topics that some schools won’t teach as science.

China’s planning a huge offshore windfarm, its largest yet.

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Solar projects drove a 5 percent increase in renewable energy investment last year.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could get moved to the Interior Department in a government shuffle. President Obama says the only reason the agency was in Commerce to begin with was that Nixon was miffed at his Interior Secretary for “criticizing him about the Vietnam War.”