Vice President Joe Biden is to announce a series of initiatives aimed at helping middle-income Americans make their homes more energy efficient and boost job growth among home retrofitters. The goal ...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko on Thursday dismissed concerns about nuclear safety at the Chernobyl power plant, which documents released by security services showed had been a disaster ...

Nuclear regulators soon will consider whether a fourth nuclear reactor should be built in Oswego County. The application for the Nine Mile 3 reactor is on track and will be filed with the Nuclear ...

The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that the spent fuel pools at American nuclear reactors are less vulnerable than the ones in Japan because of steps ordered by his agency after ...

Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) has pulled the plug on a planned 900-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Doerpen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The reason cited by EnBW and Swiss partner BKW ...

Octillion Corp. announced that the Company has doubled its research funding in order to accelerate development of the first-of-its-kind transparent glass window capable of generating Power, following ...

The European Union EU has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent in the next 40 years, and a new report by the European Wind Energy Association EWEA suggests wind power can ...

I'm sitting in the office of Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and he directs me to a green-tinted glass award sitting on a coffee table. The award, received by Dexter at the Copenhagen climate ...

Leaders in the U.S. solar energy industry blasted the U.S. government for a freeze on applications for new solar projects on public land in six Western states. The Bureau of Land Management announced ...

The unraveling of Enron Corp. came to a head Sunday when the company said it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors in what bankruptcy analysts said was the largest such filing ...

A 42-year-old construction worker was killed after he was struck by a Toronto Transit Commission bus. Two Stacey Electric workers were doing maintenance work on the underpass of a bridge at Bathurst ...

Duke Energy has expanded its Indiana work force with an additional 500 field employees and contractors from the Carolinas and elsewhere. Another 60 contractors joined the effort September 17. Most of ...