Residents along the Athabasca River, which flows through the oil sands region of Alberta, are being advised to avoid drinking from the waterway after contaminated fluids were released from a coal m

Tenaska Inc., a closely held renewable-energy developer, is delivering power from a 130-megawatt solar farm in Southern California’s Imperial Valley.

China’s corn harvest is poised to decline for the first time in four years after flooding in its biggest-producing province and drought in its fifth largest cut yields, easing a global glut as the

Greenhouse-gas emissions from power generators, oil refineries and other plants in California climbed in 2012 as a nuclear plant shutdown and low hydropower supplies increased the state’s reliance

China’s already staggering pollution problems got worse this week as a shroud of smog engulfed northern industrial cities.

A two-megawatt floating offshore wind turbine in southwestern Japan began generating power, a group led by Toda Corp. (1860) said today.

Beijing advised the young, elderly and ill among its 20 million people to stay indoors as a U.S. Embassy pollution monitor showed air quality at “hazardous” levels in the Chinese capital.

Environment and energy ministers from 13 European Union countries joined forces to call on the bloc to agree on ambitious emission-reduction rules for the next decade and strengthen the EU’s carbon

U.K. lawmakers in Parliament’s upper chamber proposed adding a carbon target for power generation to energy legislation after an attempt in the lower house failed.

About 24% of Midwest was in moderate to extreme drought on Oct. 22, down from 25% a week earlier, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.