Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently headed to Washington to lobby against a Bush administration policy he says will add to the American air pollution that accounts for half of Ontario's smog.

A regional utility has backed off a proposal to build twin coal-fired power plants in Missouri and Kansas and now plans just one plant while exploring conservation and wind power, its two top ...

The Russian Federation's former minister of atomic energy, Aleksandr Rumyantsev, has been invited to head the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, the federal agency announced recently. A spokesman at ...

A fire broke out in a 1,000-foot-tall smokestack under construction at a coal-fired power plant recently, trapping four contract workers, officials said. Three workers were plucked off the stack by a ...

Two brothers and a cousin were electrocuted recently in West Orange, N.J., after a power line fell across a parked car outside their home, the authorities said. One victim was killed as he tried to ...

Customers of Wisconsin Energy Corp. could see a special charge on their electric bills to help the company pay for $600 million in environmental upgrades to its aging power plants, under a proposal ...

The Brazilian government announced recently that it will export electricity to Argentina and Uruguay, which are currently suffering energy shortage. Brazilian Energy and Mining Minister Dilma Roussef ...

Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn't quite ready to hide a Romulan spaceship from Capt. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter. But ...

IMAGINE a 120-metre structure the size and shape of four railway carriages floating gently in the sea. The four cylinders rise and fall with the motion of the waves. The movement is harnessed to push ...

An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building ...

Ontario Power Generation today formally started the federal approvals process with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) by filing an application for a Site Preparation Licence for new nuclear ...

The sometimes conflicting goals of providing reliability, moderating power prices, deferring transmission investments, and avoiding the economic liabilities associated with third-party power ...