Energy Saving

Ingemar and Janet Persson hadn't heard about a tax break for adding renewable energy sources to homes when they started a major 2,300 square-foot addition on their Sarasota home. They'd hoped to use as many eco-friendly materials as possible, more for...

For the first time since oil prices began their meteoric rise earlier this year, airlines are slashing fuel surcharges on most flights between the United States and Europe. It's the first roll-back of one of the bewildering raft of new fees that have...

As oil prices zoomed toward an unheard of $147 a barrel this summer, it seemed every analyst's prediction that oil would approach $200 was a self-fulfilling prophecy, until suddenly it was not. Instead of $200 oil, oil is now $80. Instead of going up,...

TODAY OCT. 14 CARBON BUILDERS Association & Dow Building Solutions, ''Energy Efficiency in a World of Rising Energy Costs,'' 6:30 p.m., Carbon Career & Technical School, 150 W. 13th St., Jim Thorpe. Cost: $15. WEDNESDAY OCT. 15 EXPORT FINANCING...

NEW YORK—In what are likely to be blueprints for a national effort to fight climate change, clusters of states on the East and West Coasts and in the Midwest are setting up marketplaces for electric utilities and other companies to buy and sell...

The concept is that some power plants and businesses can reduce emissions more easily than others for a host of reasons, such as having newer facilities, different fuel supplies or more flexible generating or manufacturing processes. By issuing a set...

Gasoline prices have dropped significantly off their summertime peak of $4.06 a gallon. And the most profound drop has come in the past two weeks in response to low demand and tumbling crude oil prices. But Lehigh Valley drivers, who for the first time...

For the first time since oil prices began their meteoric rise this year, airlines are slashing fuel surcharges on a major international market: most flights between the U.S. and Europe. It's the first rollback of the largest of the bewildering new fees...

LONDON (AP) _ Oil prices climbed above $84 a barrel on Tuesday on hopes the economic fallout from the financial crisis would be curbed by U.S. and European government pledges to pump capital into the banking sector. Light, sweet crude for November...

As the sage Kermit the Frog likes to sing, "It's not easy being green." But with gas prices still at more than $3 a gallon, Barack Obama and John McCain are scrambling to try. The presidential rivals both rate energy conservation and domestic production a...

A small step today by state officials may be a giant step for Florida's fight against global warming. The Florida Public Service Commission must decide by what year 20 percent of Florida's energy generation should be renewable, such as solar and wind...

As oil prices zoomed toward $147 a barrel in July, it seemed every analyst's prediction that oil would approach $200 was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Until, suddenly, it was not. Instead of $200, oil is now just more than $81 a barrel. The U.S. has seen...