The Carbon Challenge

The FTC is proposing guidlines for eco-friendly claims, but what they should be looking at is  green fraud.

Film star DiCaprio and billionaire philanthropist/investor Soros came together to discuss the economics of climate change.

The US may have a secret weapon against rivals like China and even economies closer to ours, such as Canada in the Environmental Protection Agency.

In parts of Ghana, water has become so scarce that young women ask suitors about the distance to sources of clean water in their communities before accepting marriage proposals.

Making the economy more efficient by arguing who can cut the most wasteful carbon emissions—a bidding war that would only happen down under, right?

The Kraft says its Philadephia cream cheese is made using renewable energy sources.

A bill in California could pass this week banning wasteful single-use plastic bags if state legislators can be convinced that consumers can bring his/her own sack for carting off a loaf of bread.

A new bill in the House of Representatives would use a reverse auction process to allocate future federal oil royalties to the best renewable energy projects and technologies. 

The private sector has found success elusive. Now the federal government is stepping up its efforts to develop alternatives to gasoline, reports The New York Times.

Lexington, Mass. and Colorado Springs, Colo. are taking radically different approaches to budget savings and the one implementing energy conservation is seeing a nice payoff.

In its bid to generate the cheapest electricity, Skyline Solar is using reflective metal troughs, cranked out in the auto industry,  to focus the sun's energy onto a typical solar photovoltaic cell.

I have noticed that Apple delivers many familiar products and services in formats that are much lower in carbon content than the ones they replace, so maybe it can deliver an app that solves the problem of climate change and an energy inefficiency.

Many have dubbed the Gulf oil spill as the worst environmental disaster in American history. In my view, it’s not even close. Here are the 10 worst ones.