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Fracking health survey finds air pollution may be bigger threat than water contamination 26 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
A project studying the health impact of natural gas drilling has found that air pollution may be a bigger concern for nearby residents than water contamination, the Associated Press reports. The Sout...
Electric-vehicle sales in Hawaii well ahead of last year’s pace 26 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
More new electric vehicles were registered in Hawaii during the first six months of this year than each of the last five years, and nearly a quarter of those were made by Tesla Motors, according to th...
Solar losing out in Arizona 26 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
Solar proponents in Arizona have long said scaling back on incentives and programs at the state level to propagate the industry was like death by a thousand paper cuts. Enter Vivint Solar Inc., the U...
EV battery startup Cloteam gets $3.5M 26 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
Cloteam LLC, a startup led by battery expert Christina Lampe-Önnerud, was awarded a $3.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The startup, which was founded by the same founder of ventur...
Domestic drilling's down side: Fatalities up in oil and gas industry 26 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
Workplace fatalities in the U.S. fell to their second-lowest level in 20 years in 2012, but fatal injuries in the oil and gas industry hit a record high. In all, 4,383 people were killed at work last...
Tesla's Elon Musk posts high speed 'hyperloop' proposal online 13 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
Billionaire Elon Musk posted a 57-page PDF online (without page numbers) Monday fleshing out his proposed idea for a superfast train system called a hyperloop that could whisk passengers from San Fran...
GE abandons plans for Colorado plant 8 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
General Electric Co. said Tuesday it won't build the $300 million Aurora factory for thin-film solar power panels that GE and local officials announced with much fanfare in 2011, citing a glut of sola...
BMW takes aim at Tesla with i3 electric car 31 Jul 2013 | 03:33 am
Tesla Motors will soon have more competition in the luxury electric car market. BMW on Monday unveiled the i3 electric car, set to go on sale in the United States in the second quarter in 2014. Accor...
Dallas firm uses solar to power West Texas oil rigs 29 Jul 2013 | 08:06 am
The sun can be harsh in West Texas but one Dallas entrepreneur is putting those rays to work powering oil wells. Mark Smith has developed an off-the-grid solar power generator that provides industria...
FPL, Spectra Energy Corp. team up on $3B pipeline 29 Jul 2013 | 07:57 am
Florida Power & Light Co. said late Friday that it has chosen Houston-based Spectra Energy Corp. (NYSE: SE) as a partner in a joint venture to build a new natural gas pipeline. The pipeline represent...
