Liquid coal: A cheaper, cleaner 21st century fuel?
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When railroads ruled, it was the sweating firemen shoveling coal into the furnace who kept the engines running.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it
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By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 22--A simple sugar found in fruit and a variety of other sources could be converted to fuel for cars and trucks.
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THE DIRTY big secret about US energy production is that coal is about to play an even larger role. Already more than 50 percent of US electricity comes from plants burning coal, the fossil fuel that emits
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As lithium-ion batteries move in on gasoline's turf as most favored fuel for the nationâs automobiles, questions about the chemicalâs suitability persist.
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Researchers are goading tiny organisms like bacteria and algae into producing fuels like hydrogen and methane. The process is not useful yet, but the technology could be a solution to the energy problem. By Amit Asaravala.
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Introducing a global water ETF.
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce a truly carbon-neutral fuel using carbon dioxide removed from the air as the raw material.
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German scientists have activated CO2 by using graphitic carbon nitride as a catalyst, moving science closer to artificial photosynthesis.  The achievement was reported by a team led by Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.
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Forbes Starbucks is tracking a new Key Performance Indicator (KPI) &#151; its carbon footprint. Calculating the number and cutting emissions is tricky. Power consumed can come from coal as well as other less injurious sources. And do you include the cost of transporting and disposing of goods even when you don&#146;t have control over it? If you just calculate utility ...
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A Cambridge power plant reduced its emissions last year when it switched from oil to natural gas. But environmentalists gathered yesterday to say that the plant simply traded one kind of pollution for another, now threatening the water instead of the air.
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Plans to make cars greener by using fuel made from crops and animal fat are in doubt
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Chemists in the United States say they have broken new ground in biofuels, transforming plant sugar into a liquid fuel that packs 40-percent more energy than ethanol and appears to have fewer of its drawbacks.
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Comment is free: John Harris: The dirtiest fossil fuel of all is on the resurgent, dressed in climate-friendly garb. We'd be wise not to flirt with it.
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Mine safety officials say a sealing material used at a southeastern Kentucky mine where an explosion killed five miners is an easy and cost-effective way to contain combustible gases, but others in the industry say convenience comes at a cost.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- A small Illinois town was chosen as the site of the world's first near-zero-emissions coal-burning plant Tuesday by the public-private alliance carrying out the project. Construction of the plant continues to be delayed, however, by concerns over its costs.
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The 1st public filling station has been opened in Berlin, Germany. BASF comments that in the production of hydrogen on a commercial scale from natural gas or from other fossil feedstock emissions of carbon ...