Greenpeace says Amazon Cloud Operation Lags On Green Credentials


Facebook and Apple used to bear the brunt of Greenpeace’s ongoing campaign for cleaner data centers, but both companies have made strides in energy efficiency and renewable power sourcing and the...

Insurers Have Huge Role As Clean Energy Investors


Conversations about climate change and the insurance industry usually focus on catastrophic storms and their damaging financial ripples for insurance providers. Given skyrocketing extreme-weather...

Richard Branson Launches A Green Energy Plan For The Caribbean


In 1979, when Richard Branson bought the 74-acre Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, he paid less than $300,000. It was untouched, undeveloped, inhabited only by birds and jungle critters....

Is Shutting Working Nuclear Plants Jeopardizing Obama’s Climate Goals?


Concern is mounting in the Obama Administration over a growing number of nuclear reactors that are being closed prematurely. For the wrong reasons. On Thursday, Dr. Peter Lyons, Assistant Secretary...

Europe: Looking towards Low-Carbon Technologies to Get Ahead of the Energy Race


The European Union’s recent package of proposals on climate and energy policy to 2030 was long on the rhetoric of competitiveness, a reflection of the very real concern in Brussels that Europe’s...

The Good News Behind the Alarming Energy Headlines


In Davos, Switzerland the confabbing tycoons at the World Economic Forum spent their Friday fretting over climate change.  The irony of the super-wealthy flying in their private jets to hang out...

The State of the Union Focused on Fracking Gas


President Obama paid much less attention to energy and climate in last night’s fifth State of the Union address than he did in the previous four, highlighting only two specific initiatives: natural-...

Employees in German Solar Power Industry Losing their Jobs


Germany‘s solar power industry shed a staggering 5,000 jobs over the past two years, reducing the size of the industry by more than half, according to new data released on Tuesday by the Federal...

2014 Top 5 Climate and Energy Stories


The U.S. energy picture has shifted dramatically in recent years. The country is currently enjoying booming domestic energy production from multiple sources. And yet, signs of uncertainty abound,...

The Cloud is Powered by Coal


“Americans use too much energy” is one of the most politically correct things you can say—but it’s wrong. My favorite response to that complaint is by the great energy commentator Robert Bryce, who...