A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state’s decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be.  More »

Blessed with natural resources but never enough jobs, southern Illinois counties have begun sampling the fruits of a natural gas-fueled land rush. Industry officials say at least 17 counties — perhaps a sixth of the state — could see some activity, and that landowners already have leased perhaps half a million acres.  More »

Crews are still working to clean up oil that spewed onto lawns and roadways.  More »

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday he is optimistic that the nation’s first offshore wind farm will break ground this year after more than a decade of delays.  More »

Fort Bliss will start construction of the largest solar energy farm in the U.S. military.  More »

A company spokesman says Chevron is improving safety and oversight.  More »

Power was restored Friday to a cooling system at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant in Japan that failed for the second time in a month after an outage caused by construction work to keep out rats suspected of setting off the earlier blackout.  More »

Opponents of a proposed oil tax overhaul rallied across the state, including on the steps of the state Capitol, Thursday, while a rewritten tax bill advanced in the Alaska House.  More »

Officials say a natural gas-fueled power plant in Central Texas will double in size and supply power to approximately 1.5 million homes.  More »

Hiland Crude has proposed to build a nearly 500-mile pipeline that would feed oil from North Dakota’s booming Bakken oil field into another pipeline in eastern Wyoming.  More »

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has set an April 10 deadline for ExxonMobil to produce documents connected to the company’s oil spill in Mayflower.  More »

AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price per gallon settled at $3.51.  More »