Today travelers can rack up frequent flyer miles and trade them in for upgrades, tickets and other amenities. How about perks not for zooming across thousands of miles in a fossil-fueled jet, but for zero emission miles? That’s an idea from Volvo Group’s environmental initiative.

Chinese solar power companies have shined amid the downturn in the solar industry. Now China’s Yingli Green Energy Solar is making a play to raise its global profile and has signed up to sponsor the world’s biggest sporting event, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

U.S. billionaire Ted Turner is taking a shine to solar power — again — and is teaming up with Atlanta-based utility Southern Company to develop renewable energy projects in the United States.

The Port of Long Beach said on Monday that it has cut nearly 80 percent of emissions from truck engines at the port since its ban of old diesel-fueled trucks.

President Barack Obama came into office with climate change and the environment on his list of top priorities. Nearly a year later, one of the top environmental groups in the United States says that Obama has made the grade so far.

After slackened growth of new U.S. wind power installations in 2009, the U.S. wind industry is eyeing 2010 as a critical year.

Germany is still at the top of the class when it comes to solar power installations and incentives, according to a new report by nonprofit Global Green USA.

A California utility wants to harness wave energy to help it meet state mandates for power from renewable resources.

Why Canada and solar? Well, the best sunshine is not the biggest factor to make a solar power project economical.

China slammed rich nations this week at the global climate summit in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, back at home, the country’s group in charge of tracking emissions upped a contract for gas analyzers. Is the world’s biggest emitter getting serious about tracking emissions?

While many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the move and looked to Congress for legislation.

A new study finds that wind power does not necessarily deserve the stigmas that it sometimes carries.

2009 has not been the best year for clean technology companies. But investors can find cheer in a new report by the Cleantech Group that gives ten top predictions for 2010.

India has ambitious plans for solar as the country looks to boost its solar output to 20 gigawatts by 2022 from close to zero. Some companies are already looking to capture some of the demand they see growing in India.

Advocates for renewable energy hail net-metering as a key policy to spur generating electricity from solar and wind where it is consumed. A new report names which states in the United States make the grade — and which ones are flunking.