To encourage drivers to buy environmentally friendly electric cars, the British government has launched state grants of up to 5,000 pounds for nine different electric car models.
The South could pay less for its electricity in 20 years than is currently projected if strong public policies are enacted to spur renewable energy production and use.
BP, Anadarko, MOEX, Triton, Transocean and QBE companies face Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act charges.
Sea-ice habitats essential to polar bears would likely respond positively should countries curb global greenhouse gas emissions.
QGC, an Australian coal seam gas-explorer and -producer, has signed a contract with a consortium of GE and Laing O’Rourke for the construction of a water treatment plant in southwest Queensland that will support the region’s rapidly growing coal seam gas industry.
Dai Haifei, 24, a newly graduated architect in Beijing, decided to make his own egg-style home after being unable to afford Beijing’s sky-high rental prices.
EPA has fined Monterey Park, Calif.-based Kinetic Solutions Inc. $82,400 for allegedly selling unregistered and misbranded pesticides and making unproven claims about their effectiveness.
The citation includes 14 alleged willful and one serious violation against WRR Environmental Services Co. of Eau Claire in connection with a June 29 explosion and fire at its plant, OSHA announced Tuesday.
Abound Solar, a manufacturer of next-generation, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, announced that it has leased a 781,750-square-foot facility in Tipton, Ind., where it will be establishing a solar module manufacturing plant.
Researchers have learned that up to 90 percent of antibiotics consumed pass through an organism’s body without metabolizing, meaning the drugs can leave the body almost intact through normal bodily functions.
The two agencies will explore opportunities to collaborate on a wide range of environmental issues – including efforts to bring cleaner cookstoves to millions in the developing world – while engaging young people, expanding the conversation on environmentalism, and supporting local solutions for communities here at home and around the world.
IBM is working with the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, to continuously improve efficiency and sustainability for the city's more than 280,000 residents.
Slower-growing trees. More severe fires. More bark beetle outbreaks. A lot more dead trees. And big changes in where various tree species are dominant in southwestern U.S. forests.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service issued its final interim rule to reduce commercial fishing for groundfish stocks in the Aleutian Islands in an effort to provide more food for the endangered western Steller sea lion.
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov unveiled a new hybrid car that is due to enter the market in 2012, a first in a country where motorists often show scant regard for the environment.
Twenty sea turtles from the New England Aquarium were taken from Hanscom Air Force Base in Lincoln, Mass., to Orlando, Fla., where they will continue rehabilitation at Sea World before being potentially released back into the wild.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state of Ohio and the Ottawa River Group announced that they have completed a major cleanup project on the Ottawa River.
Construction of a fuel cell with enough capacity to power 2,800 homes has begun on the University of California’s San Diego campus as part of a renewable-energy project to turn waste methane gas from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant directly into electricity without combustion.
The county will pay more than $1 million in civil penalties and supplemental environmental project costs.
EPA seeks abstracts for presentations; deadline is Jan. 14.