Policy

Top news stories in clean energy this week.

Ken Salazar stressed in a recent speech to green energy industry players that though he’s overseen heartening progress in the renewables space, plenty of hard work remains.

While some companies will be hurt by new rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, those that help generate clean energy will benefit.

World leaders vow to prevent climate change, with little success; world’s dirtiest company closes; planet’s greenest corporation named.

The EPA has proposed new rules that it hopes will increase the use of renewable fuels by 9% this year and at the same time curb fraud.

A federal appeals court has rejected an EPA rule that required refiners to generate or buy advanced biofuels in light of insufficient supply, representing a win for the petroleum industry....

To offset the cost of Germany's shift to renewable energy, the government reported plans to cap rising household electricity prices and to compel industry to foot a larger part of...

The president may use existing rules and his executive power to cut carbon emissions.

Sunshine state regulators have reported that more than 1 gigawatt -- or 1,000 megawatts -- of solar power has been installed through the California Solar Initiative.

Because the long-term future of wind subsidies remains in question, industry experts say 2013 projects are unlikely to match the record number of megawatts installed in 2012.