Energy Saving

The Martinsburg City Council on Monday is scheduled to review the recently passed home-rule legislation, and to discuss possible personnel changes, and requests and suggestions for the pedestal in town square. City Council members are set to meet at 5 p....

Colorado company Agrebon Inc. and North Dakota partners are in discussions with North Dakota's two largest ethanol plants in Casselton and Hankinson to build small-scale nitrogen fertilizer factories on their campuses. The fertilizer plants will be...

With the groundbreaking of Glendale Unified's new aquatic center still a year away, school officials have hired a firm to explore adding renewable energy sources to the pool's design to save on future operating costs. The outdoor pool will be built at...

A Wednesday bankruptcy filing by Synagro Technologies Inc. means growth and new jobs for the Baltimore area as the waste recycler consolidates its headquarters in White Marsh. The Carlyle Group LP-owned company, which had been co-headquartered in...

SAN ANTONIO — There's one big, blistering question facing the Lakers. So, uh, who's going to score for you guys? In three games without Kobe Bryant, the Lakers have shot 37.9% and averaged 89.7 points, the latter stat padded by nine points in...

It took four years and more than $800 million, but Florida Power & Light has become one of the first utility companies in the country to complete installation of its smart-grid system. Florida's largest utility marked completion of the massive project &#...

The arrival of spring showers is an occasion to be grateful for nature's umbrellas: Trees. One of the reasons mature trees are so valuable in cities and suburbs is that they capture rainfall to help keep storms from becoming floods, says Lydia Scott,...

Because it's Earth Day, we're looking at how car parts are recycled, how outside objects are recycled for use in cars and how automakers are using new, renewable energy resources to make cars less of a drag on the environment.......

The Los Angeles City Council approved a plan Tuesday to begin moving away from coal-fired energy, despite warnings from a Department of Water and Power watchdog that the shift could cost more than $650 million. Like many utilities, the city-owned DWP...

The Hagerstown City Council on Tuesday unanimously accepted a grant that will provide 1,100 energy conservation kits to local electric customers whose meet income guidelines. The 2013 EMPOWER Clean Energy Communities Grant from the Maryland Energy...

Deerfield Public Schools District 109 is waiting for approval from the Illinois State Board of Education on $8.3 million in school fire-prevention and safety maintenance work. The district plans to issue another $3.1 million in bonds at the current low...

Nearly seven years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa launched a program to plant 1 million trees. Since then, the city has planted more than 400,000 trees — in fact, 407,000 and counting. So is the program a success or a failure? As...