Renewable Energy & Sustainability

Cutting waste and pollution to zero might sound like a good thing, but when it comes to marketing messages, zero "has very limited appeal unless we talk about zero calories," writes Raz Godelnik. Stro… Read More

Xcel Energy and New Era Wind have yet to respond to an order from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to update the panel about the outcome of the conflict between the two firms concerning their… Read More

U.S. farmers have sown 71% of the country's corn crop as of Sunday, a jump from 28% a week ago but still below the five-year average of 79%, according to the Department of Agriculture. Nineteen percen… Read More

Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill to change the taxation of propane autogas, compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas in Colorado. Under the new law, the propane autogas excise tax will sta… Read More

AkzoNobel has reached an agreement with Solazyme on producing tailored oils from algae rather than petroleum. The move could reduce AkzoNobel's per-ton emissions in surface chemistry and decorative pa… Read More