wind power

Climate activists are no fans of electric utilities. But the alternatives that they often prefer will not deliver infrastructural change at the scale we need.

Japan sent nearly 10,000 bomb-bearing balloons toward the U.S. during World War II. One killed six people.

Catastrophic accidents at power plants have heightened fears about the safety of nuclear energy, but it's getting renewed attention as a way to fight global warming.

Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation's newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today.

Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas have permanently remade our world.

Representative Mo Udall's ambitious strategy to wean the United States off fossil fuels by the year 2000.