Green Business - In the last week, the president of SolarReserve and the chief executives of Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels have stepped down.
Green Business - The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the Balkans.
Green Business - A program to encourage homeowners to add solar panels and make their houses more energy efficient through higher property taxes aims to scale up.
Green Business - Ontario's Liberal government, citing growing water demand and limited supplies, is angling to make the province a clean-watertechnologypowerhouse.
Green Business - A Colorado company says ethanol is fine, but isobutanol is better.
Green Business - "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.
Green Business - 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.
Green Business - A new agriculturaltechnologythat cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while boosting rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and other poor nations.
Green Business - 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.
Green Business - 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.
Green Business - 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.