by Jeniece Pettitt | Apr 13, 2010 | Business & Tech, Environment
“Ethanol is on the offense,” said Iowa’s Jim Nussle at a press conference in Washington on Monday.(Jeniece Pettitt/MNS) WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of the ethanol in the U.S. is from the Hawkeye State, according to the Iowa Renewable Fuel Association, so it...
by Noor Wazwaz & Taylor Hall | Apr 8, 2010 | Environment
WASHINGTON – While offshore drilling and alternative energy technologies dominate headlines, the administration is quietly pushing ahead with stringent new appliance standards that stand to save consumers billions of dollars and make one of the biggest dents yet in...
by Jeniece Pettitt | Apr 8, 2010 | Business & Tech, Environment
iStock WASHINGTON — The wind industry blew away all previous records in 2009 as more wind energy was added to the power supply than ever before, keeping the U.S. as the global wind leader. The industry installed more than 10,000 megawatts of new generating...
by Taylor Hall, Jenny Leonard, & Xiaolan Tang | Dec 7, 2009 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Nations from around the globe gathered in Copenhagen Monday at the start of two weeks of climate change discussions hosted by the United Nations. Although a troubled U.S. economy has many Americans focused on more immediate concerns, international...
by Kat McCullough | Dec 6, 2009 | Environment
Why He Matters Mathy Stanislaus has been working for more than 20 years in the environmental field, primarily in the areas of brownfields (commercial or industrial sites that are polluted and unused), Superfund (the government’s program for cleaning up uncontrolled...
by Taylor Hall, Jenny Leonard, & Xiaolan Tang | Dec 6, 2009 | Environment
Get the Flash Player to see this content. While political leaders from around the world meet in Copenhagen this week to set international policy to control global warming, climate scientists are trying to determine what changes are needed by unlocking clues from...
