A worker loads steel on a truck at a steel wholesale market in Shenyang, China.
America's New Energy Dependency
A clean-energy economy needs rare-earth metals to succeed. China has a near monopoly.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.
8 Top Washington Players
Meet the most influential energy and environmental policymakers in the Obama era.
Fuel Efficiency
Electric hybrid cars are plugged in to charge during a demonstration of the vehicles in Seattle.
Obama Proposes Strict Emissions Limits
The president's proposal would require vehicles to get 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.
Photo Gallery
Volunteers from YouthBuild, a community service organization that often partners with AmeriCorps, converged on the National Mall to build a "green" home demonstrating affordable and energy-efficient construction.
Building a "Green" Home
Volunteers from YouthBuild demonstrate affordable and energy-efficient construction.
Global Warming
In the Antarctic, climate change endangers the future of Adelie penguins and other breeds of penguins.
The Plight of Penguins and Polar Bears
Rising temperatures could have dire consequences for the animals.
Stimulus
Bright Source Energy Executives CFO Jack Jenkins-Stark (left) and CEO John Woolard at a park near their head Oakland office. The company is developing solar energy technology.
Stimulus Keeps Solar Dream Alive
Solar energy company BrightSource Energy is weathering the recession and hopes to come out on top.
A wind farm in California.
Wind Power Hit by Economic Storm
Backers say it is a promising energy source that needs stimulus incentives to meet growth goals.
Oil
Cuban workers extract petroleum in the north coast of Havana.
Why Cuba's Oil Dreams Might Come True
Recent estimates suggest that the island could move into the petroleum big leagues.
A new housing development at the north end of Rifle, Colo.
In an Energy Boomtown, Growth and Anxiety
The town of Rifle is buoyed by a surge in natural gas drilling, but it can't forget the last oil bust.
NUCLEAR POWER
The cooling towers of the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
A Virginia Town Ponders a Third Nuclear Plant
The facility could be the first new U.S. plant approved for construction in three decades.
Policy
Coal smoke and steam vapor pour out of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant overlooking a residential neighborhood in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
Obama's Win Buoys Climate Talks
Obama was not at the talks, but many hope he will reverse Bush's record on carbon limits.
Renewable Energy
T. Boone Pickens testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about alternative energy plans on Capitol Hill.
T. Boone Pickens Is Wind Power's Best Hope
The Texas oilman's "green conversion" is all about business.
Ethanol
Corn is emptied from a truck into a chute at the Little Sioux Corn Processing Plant in Marcus. Ethanol will be produced. As ethanol becomes a larger part of the energy mix, it is not clear that the federal government is prepared for the result. Ethanol already consumes so much corn that signs of strain on the food supply are having an effect on the marketfplace.This plant is one of IA's 26 ethanol plants.
The Behind-the-Scenes Struggle Over Ethanol
Competing interests are fighting over the course of ethanol policy.
GAS PRICES
The Katahdin Paper Company's Millinocket (Maine) Mill.
Death Watch in a Mill Town
High oil prices may be the final blow for a legendary paper plant.
Energy
Energy opener
Can America Use Less Energy?
Recent News and Commentary
By Air? New Routes of Exposure to Hormones
Traditional ideas about where hormones from feedlots end up may be in need of serious revision.
Carbon Credits Spell New Future for Forests
The potential to profit from a cap and trade system has united landowners and environmental groups.
Britain, France Back Global Climate Fund
The fund would provide billions in aid to poor nations to help them reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
U.S. and China to Reduce Emissions
Pledges by the U.S. and China for emissions reductions still seem timid to many experts.
Warming Fuels Dream of Hidden Wealth
Retreating ice could uncover potentially vast oil and mineral resources.
