Nokia has retained the top spot in Greenpeace’s latest ranking of 17 consumer electronics companies over their environmental practices, while Philips and Apple made strides up the list.
Philips leaped to 4th place from 11th and Apple moved up to 10th place from 14th — best among the top 5 PC makers — in Greenpeace’s latest [...]

The U.S. is out to create a clean-air zone around its coastlines, targeting diesel ships that look pretty dirty from shore.

The Las Vegas strip (below) and other global icons went dark on Saturday for Earth Hour. What did you do, if anything, to power down?

Everyone knows bleach makes things cleaner, but until now its active ingredient, chlorine, has made the environment dirtier. Two companies have come up with a bleach that has no chlorine and boasts other environmental benefits as well.

Has it come to this in California? Is the Golden State really banning black cars from its famous freeways, as reported in various auto industry blogs — and even The Washington Post — on the grounds that they require more air conditioning to cool?

An environmental group this week issued a report saying oil and gas companies have enjoyed exemptions to common sense anti-pollution federal rules that govern companies in other industries. This has led, the Environmental Working Group claims, to fouled groundwater, creeks and acres and acres of formerly pristine land in the U.S. West.

Tesla Motors unveiled the Model S, its newest all-electric car at a media event outside Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.

Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is spending $2 billion on a bunch of windmills and so far has no way to get the electricity to market. Last December he said he was a touch anxious, but on Wednesday he didn’t seem worried at all.

Al Gore to publish a new book about solving global warming: will it sell?

Home electric bills could rise 30 percent under a U.S. cap-and-trade plan to address carbon dioxide emissions, Moody’s estimates.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein is fuming over a plan to use some Mojave desert lands to develop solar power plants and wind farms.

Google co-founder Larry Page is building green. He’s planning a cozy 6,000 square foot eco-mansion on a lot in Palo Alto.

U.N. Secretary General wants you to turn off the lights for an hour on March 28 in what he calls the “largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted.”

Since the days of Thomas Edison, finding a way to effectively store electricity has been one of the “Holy Grails” for power companies.
While it won’t be an overnight revolution for electricity, eventually plug-in electric cars and trucks will be a step toward the elusive goal, said Ted Craver, chief executive officer of Edison International.
Edison International [...]

Enerkem Inc,  a private company based in Montreal, wants to kill two birds with one stone — fuel your car while getting paid for reducing trash mountains. They say they can do it by using garbage and biomass as feedstocks for plants that make second generation ethanol and other advanced biofuels
Vincent Chornet, the president and chief executive, said [...]