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You get what you pay for. Clean power mandates in the US mandate that we buy megawatt-hours of clean energy,...
"Katrina cottages," alternatives to FEMA trailers used after Hurricane Katrina, find new life around the country as housing and educational facilities.
Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Leave it to a city famous for coffee and rain to produce possibly...
Climate change skeptics are ecstatic over an analysis that says by 2020, we might enter a period of low solar activity, which they spin as a mini ice age
News of the World's phone hacking has been offensive, but News Corp has done something worse: It damaged the public's understanding of climate science
The world’s beleaguered nuclear industry continues to take a battering. The “nuclear renaissance” juggernaut that once seemed unstoppable now appears...
The Associated Press has a blockbuster study of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC has been working closely with the nuclear industry to keep aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards.
Some see Germany's nuclear phase-out as an overreaction to Fukushima, but really it's a smart move toward a low-carbon economy.
A report from the American Society of Civil Engineers touts misguided and outdated strategies for infrastructure spending.