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Startup Agilyx raises $25 million to finance four planned plants that will take post-recycling plastic and convert it into synthetic crude oil.

Covanta Energy's waste-to-energy facility takes municipal solid waste and produces electricity in a less-polluting way than old-time incinerators.

A visit to a modern waste-to-energy plant shows they are far cleaner than older incinerators and an alternative to landfills, but shouldn't displace efforts to increase recycling.

Microsoft project finds that software provided as good a bang for the buck as upgrading physical infrastructure in commercial building energy retrofits.

An explosion at the Marcoule nuclear waste-management site in southeastern France has killed at least one person, but the country's nuclear safety body says there was no leak of radioactive material.

The new multiferroic alloy is called Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10

Kendall Station plans to ship "green steam" from a combined heat and power plant to heat buildings miles away, lightening the environmental footprint of the Boston-area power plant.

Device may eventually be used on a car exhaust for cooling and power

A Cape Breton hospital may one day get its power from organic waste and sewage.

Tiny cantilever generators could recycle as much as 30 percent of the heat chips put off