Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found. More »
Clean technology investors shift focus to drilling
A decade ago, large investors in so-called clean technology had a straightforward goal: finance companies that would help eliminate the world’s dependence on oil, natural gas and coal. More »
Oil drilling technology leaps, clean energy lags
Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade — just not the one we expected. More »
Clean technology investors shift focus to drilling
As profits from wind, solar, biofuels and other alternatives have fallen short of expectations — and as the fossil fuel business boomed — venture capitalists have stretched the definition of clean technology to fuel clean technology investment funds. More »
Wind energy trade group names new CEO
Tom Kiernan, longtime president of the National Parks Conservation Association, has been named CEO of the American Wind Energy Association. More »
States turn against renewable energy as natural gas price plunges
More than half the U.S. states with laws requiring utilities to buy renewable energy are considering ways to pare back those mandates after a plunge in natural gas prices brought on by technology that boosted supply. More »
Pa. wind energy soars in 2012, but total is small
Wind energy installations almost doubled in Pennsylvania last year, but the industry still provides only about 1 percent of the state’s electricity, far behind Iowa, Texas and others. More »
Wind energy plan tests power of farmers
The first high voltage electric transmission line to dissect their crop and pasture land arrived in 1967, when Sunflower Electric paid Edwards County farmer Anthony J. Brake $1,413 for the privilege. More »
Clean energy investment drops worldwide amid subsidy cuts
Clean energy investment slid 22 percent to its lowest level in four years as nations pared subsidies for technologies from wind turbines to solar power and financing in China and Brazil stalled. More »
US ranks No. 1 for new wind projects
Texas leads the pack with 12,000 megawatts of wind power generation capacity, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s annual market report. More »
Interior chief sees many wind farms in US future
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar voiced optimism Friday that the nation’s first offshore wind farm will soon break ground after more than a decade of delays and be followed by more off the Atlantic coast. More »
Renewables could feed all New York power needs, academics say
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 »
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