Topic: Iowa

Obama launches push for green revolution

President Barack Obama Wednesday launched his push for a green energy revolution and to pass historic climate change legislation, making his pitch from a wind energy factory on Earth Day. Obama argued in Iowa, the state that set him on the road to the White House, that bloated US energy ...

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Coal plants checked by enviro campaigns, costs

Coal plants fall as global warming campaign makes gains; construction boom grinds on

Beneath the frozen plains of eastern Montana and Wyoming lie the largest coal deposits in the world — enough to last the United States more than a century at the nation's current burn rate. The fuel literally ...

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