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

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

Volkswagen’s U.S. chief, Stefan Jacoby, ruffled some entrepreneurial feathers on Thursday when he told a group of business school students at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management that it will be 35 years before electric cars make up a significant portion of the world’s auto market.

A U.S. anti-coal campaign has gone Hollywood with a new TV spot directed by Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen of “No Country for Old Men” and “Fargo” fame.

Last week, we paid a visit to startup car company Aptera at its headquarters in Vista, California, just north of San Diego. Aside from talking to company executives, we also got to take a ride in the ultra-efficienct, spaceage vehicle.

Though a financial crisis and global recession have left many of the world’s biggest companies uncharacteristically humbled, that didn’t stop NGOs from taking shots at a few of them at the World Economic Forum.

California wasted no time asking incoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson to reconsider its request to impose stiff targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars.

Are those green jobs Obama has been promising already on their way?

Has the global economic crisis got you feeling more blue than green? If so, you’re not alone.

New York’s famed Broadway lights are getting a green tint. Not literally, of course, but this week the Big Apple’s iconic theaters vowed to make their “Great White Way” shine with more energy efficient bulbs.

The car is king in Southern California, so what better place for stressed out auto executives to blow off some steam and take a break from their considerable recent troubles?

Coca-Cola is the latest American brand working to improve its environmental credentials with a sweeping new program that pledges to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions throughout its massive global system.

This week, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Cascade Engineering launched a wind turbine aimed at residential and business customers. According to Jessica Lehti, the company’s senior sales and marketing manager, the Swift Wind Turbine is as soft as a whisper and fits on the side of buildings, making it “more zoning compliant” for urban and suburban settings.

Halloween is just around the corner, and it may be better than most years for one of Earth’s most unpopular species: the bat. 
Something sinister is happening to bats in the United States — not only are their numbers declining due to a mysterious malady, but large numbers of them are also being caught mid-flight in the spinning wind turbines that are [...]

Plastic packaging has long been the bane of environmentalists, who see petroleum-based beverage bottles and shopping bags piling up in landfills as one of the biggest symbols of a wasteful society.
That bad rap for plastic (not to mention soaring prices on the materials that go into making it) has sent consumer products companies scrambling to [...]