By John Carey
While Washington focuses on health care, another battle looms in the Senate for carbon cap-and-trade legislation
Even as the health-care fight dominates the headlines, another Washington battle is heating up over climate and energy. In late June, the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill putting caps on the emissions that cause global [...]

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–3 local Hispanic high school seniors have been honored for their achievements in engineering and mathematics by Exxon Mobil and the Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation.
Award recipients Rocio Garay from Anderson High School, Arturo Lopez attending West Leyden High School, and Christian Pereda of Elgin High School were recognized as the 2009 Gold, Silver and [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States increased nearly 25 cents in the past three weeks on a rise in crude oil prices, according to the Lundberg survey released on Sunday.
The average national price for self-serve, regular, unleaded gasoline was $2.3010 a gallon on May 15, [...]

NORTHBROOK, Ill., May 4 /PRNewswire/ — Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader in product safety testing and certification, announced that it will soon begin offering the testing and certification of wind turbines in accordance with new UL standard requirements for safety. UL’s new service, offered in partnership with Germanischer Lloyd (GL), a leading wind energy [...]

Two more states have joined the “gigawatt club,” according to the first-quarter report from the American Wind Energy Association — but Texas remains firmly in the lead.
The list is comprised of states with more than a gigawatt of wind-power generating capacity.
Kansas and New York are the newest members of the gigawatt club, at 1.014 and [...]

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - The average retail price for U.S. gasoline fell a penny over the last week to $2.05 a gallon, backing off its highest pump price so far for the year, the Energy Department said on Monday.
The national price for regular unleaded gasoline is down $1.55 from a year ago, the [...]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved incentives that could help a Michigan company build a 3,000-mile transmission “superhighway” to move wind-generated power out of the Midwest.
Novi, Mich.-based ITC Holdings Corp. filed its rate and incentives application in February. On Monday, FERC approved a 12.38 percent return on investment for the project, which is expected [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’ fourth-quarter income fell 36 percent on the loss of a tax credit and expenses that outpaced revenue growth.
Alliance said Wednesday it earned $25.2 million, or 32 cents per partnership unit, in the quarter. The Tulsa, Okla.-based company earned $39.9 million, or 76 cents per unit, in [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Oil prices dipped below $40 per barrel Friday for the first time this year as the government reported the nation’s worst annual job losses since World War II.
People are traveling less, manufacturers are slashing production and there are job cuts across almost every sector of the economy, leading to a severe [...]

LANSING (AP) — Retired second-grade teacher Jean Veselenak drove four hours to tell state regulators what she fears would happen if a new coal-fired power plant is built in her community along Lake Huron in northern Michigan.
She believes the environment would be polluted with more mercury — a toxin that can damage children’s nervous systems [...]