BP civil settlement remains elusive as trial nears
The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to ...
NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight
After four months helping in ground zero recovery post-Sept. 11, New York City Police Officer Nick Russo sought respite by moving with his family to ...
FACT CHECK: Overreaching in State of Union speech
President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for ...
NY health chief: Longer gas-drilling study needed
Environmental groups praised state regulators for delaying a decision on shale gas development until a more in-depth health study is finished, but ...
Obama: Nation stronger, GOP should back his plans
Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government ...
Germany: no prospect of shale gas fracking soon
Germany's environment minister says he doesn't expect the extraction of natural gas by "fracking" will start any time soon in Europe's biggest economy
How Obama is wielding executive power in 2nd term
This is what "Forward" looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive ...
Solar industry grapples with hazardous wastes
Homeowners on the hunt for sparkling solar panels are lured by ads filled with images of pristine landscapes and bright sunshine, and words about the ...
Damon's fracking drama gets run at Berlin prize
Matt Damon hopes "Promised Land," his drama on the divisive practice of fracking, will win over international critics, despite a U.S. reception that ...
Report: Warming bringing big changes to forests
Big changes are in store for the nation's forests as global warming increases wildfires and insect infestations, and generates more frequent floods ...
EPA: Decline in carbon pollution from power plants
Heat-trapping gases from U.S. power plants fell 4.6 percent in 2011 from the previous year as plants burned less coal, the biggest source of ...
Solar development absorbing Calif. farmland
There's a land rush of sorts going on across the nation's most productive farming region, but these buyers don't want to grow crops. They want to ...
Energy Secretary Chu to step down
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan, is stepping down.
Dutch court rejects most of Shell spill case
A Dutch court has ruled that a subsidiary of international oil giant Royal Dutch Shell should be held responsible for a pipeline leak poisoning ...
Ford, Daimler, Nissan to research hydrogen cars
Ford is joining with Daimler and Renault-Nissan to speed development of cars that run on hydrogen, with hopes of bringing a vehicle to market in as ...
Halliburton 4Q tops Wall Street expectations
Halliburton's net income for the fourth quarter fell 26 percent because of a decline in North America, where drilling activity slowed and the company ...
Court says EPA overestimates biofuels production
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency is overestimating the amount of fuel that can be produced from grasses, ...
Toyota, BMW working on new battery technology
Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW Group are working together on next-generation batteries for green vehicles called "lithium-air" as their collaboration, ...
In crisis, Greeks turn to wood-burning - and choke
Fireplaces were long a status symbol for Greece's up-and-coming middle class, like the second car and the flat-screen TV. Now, they are increasingly ...
Obama's lofty inaugural ideals run into reality
President Barack Obama's lofty ideals from his inaugural address ran smack into reality Tuesday on the first working day of his second term.
Obama climate pledge faces test on oil pipeline
Environmental groups say President Barack Obama's warning about climate change will soon be tested as he decides whether to approve the Keystone XL ...
Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners
Algerian forces scoured the Sahara Desert on Tuesday, searching for five foreign energy workers who vanished during a chaotic four-day battle with ...
Obama pledges to deal with climate change
President Barack Obama pledged in his inaugural address Monday to respond to the threat of climate change, saying the "failure to do so would betray ...
New documentary targets critics of fracking
"FrackNation" is a new documentary that attacks opponents of fracking for oil and gas, but it also raises a bigger question: Is it possible to ...
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