washington — The federal government will hold the first lease sale for commercial offshore wind energy projects at the end of July, the Interior Department announced Tuesday. The sale will ... Read more
One reason that offshore wind has not caught on in the United States is the steep cost of erecting a tower in the water, but researchers at the University of Maine tried another approach on Friday by launching a ... Read more
The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came on Friday that developers of a ... Read more
WE will need fossil fuels like oil and gas for the foreseeable future. So there’s really little choice (sigh). We have to press ahead with fracking for natural gas. We must approve the Keystone XL ... Read more
After a deep slump at the end of last year, the wind industry is picking up. First Wind, a Boston-based developer and operator that was sitting on a pile of stalled projects with the potential to ... Read more
After a deep slump at the end of last year, the wind industry is picking up. First Wind, a Boston-based developer and operator that was sitting on a pile of stalled projects with the potential to ... Read more
After a deep slump at the end of last year, the wind industry is picking up. First Wind, a Boston-based developer and operator that was sitting on a pile of stalled projects with the potential to ... Read more
After a deep slump at the end of last year, the wind industry is picking up. First Wind, a Boston-based developer and operator that was sitting on a pile of stalled projects with the potential to ... Read more
MY younger sister, Maureen, was born with cerebral palsy. That shaped my view of the world, as I saw the challenges that she and my parents had to deal with. My sister went to special schools for ... Read more