The president-elect confirmed that he plans to stick to the aggressive targets he had set earlier for fighting climate change, saying, "delay is no longer an option."
By John M. Broder, courtesy of the New York Times

State regulators have award rights to build a offshore wind farm in the southern part of the state as part of its strategy to substantially increase energy from renewable sources.
By Ken Belson, , courtesy of the New York Times

From the plane flying over the Gulf Islands National Seashore, scientists from the United States Geological Survey were scanning the ocean, trying to find Ship Island. Their maps and G.P.S. system told them they were over its eastern end, but there was no sign of it.
By Cornelia Dean, courtesy of the New York Times

For years, the cows at Green Mountain Dairy here produced only milk and manure. But recently they have generated something else: electricity.
By Katie Zezima, courtesy of the New York Times

Coal the "dark fuel," may be the most visible villain of global warming, but its use is up and projected to go higher.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

With the federal government offering the nuclear industry $18.5 billion in loan guarantees and billions more in production tax credits and insurance against bureaucratic delays, at least a few new reactors seem certain to be built.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

On a strip of Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, a futuristic experiment posing as an ordinary fuel station may be bringing the world one step closer to the hydrogen age.
By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of the New York Times

It is probably a good thing that the Mohonk Mountain House, the 19th-century resort, was built on Shawangunk conglomerate, a concrete-hard quartz rock. Otherwise, the path to the National Weather Service’s cooperative station here surely would have turned to dust by now.
By Anthony DePalma, courtesy of the New York Times

"The moment I read that paper," the wind entrepreneur Peter Mandelstam recalled, "I knew in my gut where my next wind project would be."
By Mark Svenvold, courtesy of the New York Times

Data showing Arctic sea ice may reach its lowest level on record this summer underscores the need for governments to speed up talks on a new climate pact, the Worldwide Fund for Nature said Monday.
From the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post