India has slashed its target for increased hydropower generating capacity over the next five years due to delays in environmental approvals and difficulties over land acquisitions and water rights,

A dispute over the authority of U.S. accident investigators heads to federal court here Wednesday, in a case pitting the U.S.

Exelon Corp. said Thursday that money from a federal loan backing construction of the giant Antelope Valley solar farm near Los Angeles has started to flow.

French state-controlled utility Electricité de France SA said late Thursday that a leak was detected at one of its nuclear reactors in northwestern France, after two small fires were extinguished a

Water containing radioactive substances may have leaked into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday, the plant operator said, the latest example of continued problems at the

Rabid skunks are causing a stink in Carlsbad, N.M.

The Environmental Protection Agency has postponed its first rules aimed at reducing air pollution from natural-gas wells that are drilled by hydraulic fracturing, following a last-minute push by oi

A parliamentary committee in Nepal has given the go-ahead for China Three Gorges Corp.'s $1.6 billion hydroelectric-power project after the Chinese state-owned company threatened last month to pull

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook southwestern Mexico on Monday, which geologists said was a likely aftershock to a much larger 7.4 magnitude temblor last month.

The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in Texas, the third time in recent months that the agency has backtracked on high-profil