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Wind power entrepreneurs have created a new energy boom in West Texas

CPS Energy has teamed with a San Antonio company to install a roof full of solar panels capable of generating 200 kilowatts of electricity

Meet Kathy Lusk, one of the first wind power scouts in West Texas

In 2006, Americans produced 251 million tons of municipal solid waste prior to recycling, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That works out to about 4 1/2 pounds a day for every man, woman and child in the country. Fortunately, 82 million tons of that material was recycled or composted that year. The EPA…

The effects of a storm raging in the heavens will soon be felt here on Earth, scientists have warned. The first sunspots in an erupting geomagnetic solar storm have been detected on the sun’s surface, heralding the start of what some observers predict will be a strong 11-year storm cycle. In the past, solar storms,…