A call for a national clean-energy standard (NCES) by President Barack Obama during his January 2011 State of the Union address is supported by most Americans, who say they are willing to pay an extra 13 percent in utility costs for green electricity. Obama’s 2011 address said an NCES would see ...

A call for a national clean-energy standard (NCES) by President Barack Obama during his January 2011 State of the Union address is supported by most Americans, who say they are willing to pay an extra 13 percent in utility costs for green electricity. Obama’s 2011 address said an NCES would see ...

Following the E. coli case in Norway in 2006, when 17 people fell ill and one child died after eating mutton sausages, the meat industry introduced a number of measures in order to reduce the risk of food poisoning from meat. Clean animals and good hygiene during slaughtering are essential ...

Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of the first self-propelled "microsubmarines" designed to pick up droplets of oil from contaminated waters and transport them to collection facilities. The report concludes that these tiny machines could play an important role in cleaning up oil spills, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

In a post-Solyndra, budget-constrained world, the transition to a decarbonized energy system faces great hurdles. Overcoming these hurdles will require smarter and more focused policies. Two writers outline their visions in a pair of high-profile analyses.

Levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California's coastal waters have plummeted over the past four decades, which researchers attribute to sewage treatment regulations that were part of the Clean Water Act of 1972 and to the phase-out of leaded gasoline in the 1970s and 1980s.

Brett Smith For Redorbit.comA federal push for renewable power helped the United States overtake China as the world’s largest investor of clean energy last year, researchers for the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reported on Wednesday.Experts cited the government’s policy as the driving force for the 42 percent increase in investments."Investors ...

Scientists have described a new and more efficient version of an innovative device the size of a washing machine that uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity and clean up the sewage at the same time. Commercial versions of the two-in-one device could be a boon for the ...

Since 2009, a hydrogen powered street cleaning vehicle has been undergoing testing on the streets of Basel. The project is intended to take hydrogen drives out of the laboratory and onto the streets in order to gain experience on using them under practical conditions. The result of the pilot trial: ...

Scientists have produced a previously unseen uranium molecule, in a development that could help improve clean-up processes for nuclear waste.

Scientists in Poland have discovered that it is easy to clean and treat polluted water for extraction of valuable chemicals, such as those used in the production of drugs. The upshot of this is that the use of neither plants nor factories is required; only the Sun and a 'magic' ...

A team at the Swiss Space Center are designing and building a “janitor satellite,” called CleanSpace One, to clean up the space junk that orbits Earth and poses dangers to satellites.