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As our colleagues at Green Inc. noted on Wednesday, California has adopted stringent energy consumption guidelines for televisions. As Sharp switches to equipping more models with LED backlights, the task becomes even easier,...
As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a...
President Obama's trip to China yielded precious little Chinese cooperation on the Administration's key concerns, ranging from currency issues to Iran. "I underlined to President Obama that given our differences in national...
Many stocks finish down after week, but dollar rises Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 21, 2009 Anxiety reappeared on Wall Street this week, leaving markets largely lower and sending investors into short-term...
Palm oil is in everything from fuel to cosmetics. Although palm oil saves money, when carbon-rich peatlands in nations such as Indonesia and Malaysia are drained and turned into palm oil groves, the environmental impacts are...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- UK-based BG Group plans to invest $20 billion in Brazil's ambitious sub-sea oil and gas exploration and development projects that are likely to put the country on the map as one of the largest...
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
In the five years I worked as a reporter in India, I sat through many uncomfortable silences during interviews about Pakistani terrorists, the pervasive caste system and Indian Muslims -- sensitive issues that, on the face of...
Melanie Sloan, a soot-covered lab technician, is trying to boil water to help save lives. But Ms. Sloan isn’t concerned with the liquid. On a recent day, she’s in her lab steadily shoving firewood into a pipe-like stove that is...
The moment oil came spewing out of the Lucas No. 1 well at Spindletop on Jan. 10, 1901, Texas’ economy was forever wrenched from its agricultural roots and thrust into the Industrial Age of the 20th century. Today, nearby...
