L.A. Will Look at European Trash-to-Energy Plants
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Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith is leading a delegation on a seven-city tour of Europe starting Sunday to look at trash-to-energy plants and other alternatives to landfills.
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Chemists unveil a type of material that could eventually help power plants generate electricity without emissions.
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Blog: Automaker to partner on pilot program to test hybrid electric vehicles with California electric utility
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All public-sector purchasers of office equipment in Europe will in future be obliged to buy brands that carry theÂ Energy StarÂ logo, the environmental quality standard agreed on by the U.S. and the European Union, following a vote in the European Parliament Tuesday.
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England's BioTruck team aims to promote greener alternatives to fuels like ethanol.
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By Pat Kinney, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Mar. 3--WATERLOO -- LS Power unveiled a plan around the site of its proposed Waterloo power plant that it hopes will result in a local showcase of conservation practices, but plant opponents remain skeptical.
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California should try to add solar energy systems to 1 million homes by 2017 to save electricity and cut pollution from power plants, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Friday.
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A push into the solar sector could benefit the company.
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Los Angeles and Pittsburgh provide examples of what to do &#151; and not to do &#151; about China's severe air pollution in the face of surging energy use from rapid economic growth, U.S. and Chinese scientists say.
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New European governments aim to clean up their streets with a pet project
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Southern California is gambling its future power needs on its constant sunshine, wind and the ability of engineers to effectively harness those and other alternative energy sources.
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Scientists have recently turned to trash in an effort to unearth organic alternatives to petrochemical plastics.
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By Paul Burgarino  MANTECA -- The site of an old photoprocessing plant could frame the picture of housing development in Manteca in the upcoming year.
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The Environment Agency is launching an inquiry into toxic waste produced by US agrochemical giant Monsanto that was dumped in landfills.
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E.ON AG, Germany s biggest utility, plans to convert an oil-fired power station in the U.K. s south by the end of the decade to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and boost power supplies.
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New research centers in Tennessee, Wisconsin and California will try to develop new ways of turning switchgrass, poplar trees and other plants into fuel under a $375 million plan announced Tuesday by the Energy Department.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.