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When the software mogul Mitch Kapor won planning approval for his 10,000-square-foot house in Berkeley, Calif., neighbors were surprised that it will qualify as “green.”

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Proceeds from an electric rate increase would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs.

The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.

"The failure to extend and expand the ecoENERGY program will slow wind energy development and reduce our ability to compete with the United States," a wind industry representative said.

While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state's two biggest utilities to install the technology.

A new agricultural technology that cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while boosting rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and other poor nations.

Syncrude, the Canadian oil sands giant, is defending itself against criminal charges for the deaths of thousands of birds in one of its tailings ponds.

Starting in 2011, California will regulate emissions from electric utility equipment of the gas sulfur hexafluoride -- or SF6 -- which is used in high voltage transmission systems in circuit breakers, switches and insulation.

The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement.

Biologists in central California reported finding the first such egg at Pinnacles National Monument in more than a century.

Speaking at a nuclear energy conference in Washington Tuesday, representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggested that a new, long-term policy on nuclear waste storage was sorely needed.

Hundreds of homeowners are complaining that their newly installed "smart" electric meters are inaccurately raising their electric bills.

Florida’s plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.

A severe drought is forcing the country -- which is heavily reliant on hydropower for its electricity needs -- to explore alternatives.

The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.

Researchers at I.B.M. and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have discovered a new way to make plastics that can be continuously recycled or developed for novel uses in health care and microelectronics.

An Australian company appears ready to build a $3.5 billion hydroelectric plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo to power a $5 billion dollar aluminum smelter.

The Energy Department last week defended its distribution of stimulus funding to some foreign developers of renewable energy projects, saying the grants were creating American jobs.

A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.