JUNO BEACH, Fla., May 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The shareholders of FPL Group, Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!fpl/quotes/nls/fpl (FPL 50.59, +0.44, +0.88%) voted today to change the name of the company t ...More

Environmental charity Greenpeace has made claims that HSBC's asset management arm is sidestepping the bank's environmental guidelines by holding shares in a company accused of destroying Indonesian fo ...More

The National Research Council issued three major climate reports on Wednesday recommending that the United States act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop a national strategy to adapt ...More

Reporting from WashingtonBarbara Boxer came to the U.S. Senate almost 18 years ago, a scrappy and unabashed liberal. Since then, the California Democrat has worked to shed her image as an ideologu ...More

WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2010 (ENS) - Due to the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have agreed to seek a moratorium on oil exploration an ...More

HOKKAIDO, Japan, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Environmental ministers from Japan, South Korea and China met Sunday in Tomakomai City of Hokkaido, Japan to further cooperation in dealing with environmental chall ...More

Will the politicians in Washington succeed in freezing our economy to death under the pretext of saving us from a non-existent global warming crisis? With our national economy and the global economy i ...More

In a meeting with President Evo Morales yesterday, the Norwegian environment and development minister, Erik Solheim, offered his country’s collaboration in helping to manage Bolivia’s oil and gas reso ...More

THE economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a report for the United Nations will declare later ...More

Minister for forests and environment Jairam Ramesh believes India is building an important link between climate change and biodiversity by creating an Indian version of the IPCC. India has created it ...More

RALEIGH — According to Ecoville’s environmental benefits calculator, in 2009 North Carolina citizens saved 8,662,637 million BTUs of energy statewide, or the equivalent energy content of approximately ...More

A leading Senate Republican voice on climate legislation said yesterday that he expects the Senate can pass a resolution handcuffing U.S. EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. "I thin ...More

Michigan regulators denied an air quality permit Friday for a proposed 600-megawatt coal-burning power plant in Rogers City, saying the project would damage the environment and hit customers with big ...More

India plans to play a larger role in protection of forests and biodiversity, especially in the tenth Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to be held in Nagoya, J ...More

WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. companies' top concern in the climate change debate is reducing carbon emissions, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Appetite for Change survey. Of the c ...More

For such an anticipated bill, the climate change proposal unveiled last week didn't make much of a splash on Capitol Hill. After a flashy press conference with business leaders and environmentalist ...More

A catchy TV commercial in 1977 claimed all 200 million people in the U.S. could agree on one thing: That we all liked Burger King hamburgers, as long as we could get them our own way. little more than ...More

The Senate will likely vote on a climate change measure in the next few weeks. But it won't be on comprehensive cap-and-trade legislation. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has until the week of June 7 ...More

The normally unflappable Jim Prentice is upset. It's surprising given that the environment minister doesn't get upset very often. Despite facing a lot of criticism in his portfolio, Prentice is ...More

A group of Maine doctors, gathered in Portland today, say climate change is worsening some diseases and encouraging the spread of insect-borne illnesses. Climate change may have been the realm ...More