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Moody’s says new nuclear plants are a ‘‘bet the farm’’ risk; the report parallels coal plant financing risks, boosting our call for halting Duke’s Cliffside project.

Regulators show their partiality toward the industry, while ignoring cost, climate and safety concerns – AND the lack of a reactor design

Though simultaneously praising the 2-degree commitment as “clearly a big step forward” in international talks, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri told reporters here yesterday that G-8 leaders failed to heed warnings that global greenhouse gas emissions levels must peak by 2015.

Studies are homing in on which particles polluting the air are most sickening — and…

New Study Sheds Light on the Growing U.S. Wind Power Market

California, the longtime national leader in solar energy, has a capacity of more than 500 megawatts of solar power at peak periods in the early afternoon — the same as a major power plant.