UK on track to miss carbon targets, climate change advisers warn

The coalition’s flagship insulation programmes have failed to put the UK on the right track to meet its commitments on cutting greenhouse gases, a review by the statutory advisers on climate change has found.

Achim Steiner: shale gas rush 'a liability' in efforts slow climate change

Shale gas could turn out to be "a liability" to global efforts limit climate change, the United Nations' top environmental official has warned.

Obama proposes carbon limits on new US power plants

US President Barack Obama has unveiled a proposal to limit carbon emissions on new power plants built in the US. It would be the first federal attempt to impose limits on the pollution blamed for global warming.

Energy use in USA in 2012 was below 1999 level, though economy had grown 25%

SAN FRANCISCO: For as long as most of us can remember, the nation's energy news has trended from bad to worse, starting with the oil crises of the 1970s.

Industry panning Obama's climate change push

BOW, N.H. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's push to fight global warming has triggered condemnation from the coal industry across the industrial Midwest, where state and local economies depend on the health of an energy sector facing strict new pollution limits.

The Growing Might of Solar Power

From California to New Jersey, the summer sun was hot this year — and so was the solar industry.While the business of solar energy is still small enough and young enough to record firsts at the fearsome pace that a toddler does, the milestones are getting more substantial.

U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A curious thing is happening to the air in the United States. It's getting cleaner.