Just as clean, renewable energy is lifting off and the impacts of climate disruption become ever more visible, fossil energy production is becoming dramatically more extreme. But extreme fossil energy production is exactly what we don’t need. In just the last two years, I have seen the Louisiana coast’s oil-slicked marshes after the Deepwater Horizon…

A new entry to the energy efficiency lexicon?

This Sunday, DOE Secretary Chu to discuss U.S. efforts on energy efficiency; more work can be done.

Agency will review current standard and propose stronger ones by 2011

Stronger standards would save energy, cut global warming pollution by 700 million tons

We’ve all seen them—those gray boxes mounted on telephone poles. Those boxes are electricity distribution transformers, and they serve to reduce the power of electric current from the high voltage used in transmission lines to the lower voltages we use in our homes, offices, and businesses. Some transformers lose a lot more electricity than others,…

Stronger standards would save energy, cut global warming pollution by 700 million tons