Alternative energy

Putting a price on carbon will create financial incentives to emit less.

Britain has just approved construction of its first new nuclear power plant in 20 years.

Solar facilities like Ivanpah could be the future -- or, they could be a footnote in the history of clean energy.

A new report says North America will once again dominate fossil fuel production

The surge in oil and natural gas production in the U.S. offers real economic opportunities. How much are royalties from offshore drilling growing, and what could be gained by taking some of that money to help fund alternative energies?

Lawmakers are likely to raise alternative fuel costs at Hagel confirmation hearing.

The International Energy Agency is forecasting that the U.S. will become the biggest oil producer in the world within the next decade.

Mitt Romney claims battery maker A123's bankruptcy is another example of Obama's bad record of picking winners, but has the administration really performed as poorly as the GOP says?

Here in the United Kingdom, retail giants like Wal-Mart and grocery store chain Tesco are food waste into green energy.

Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens explains why he recently left natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy, and what he thinks of a federal energy policy in the United States.