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A ruling by the US Court of Appeals in Washington is being called a victory for the coal industry, and a major blow to the Obama administration’s efforts to improve air quality.

Shares of energy efficiency solutions company Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) are down slightly in early trading today after closing four percent lower Thursday and recovering from an 11 percent dip earlier Thursday in reaction to the company's announced Fiscal 2010 financial results that had strong revenue and earnings growth, lower earnings for Q4, and less-than-inspiring 2011 guidance.

I have been wary about profiling bulletin board-listed Lighting Science Group Corp. (OTC: LSCG.OB), a light-emitting diode (LED) lighting manufacturer/marketer:

• On the one hand, the company’s one-year 700 percent stock increase seems justified by its impressive 2010 revenue growth based on what the company claims are the most efficient and cheapest LED products on the market. 
• On the other hand, the company’s net losses have been erratic and larger than revenues. And a bulletin board listing always saps a certain amount of confidence.

The U.S. state of Florida has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for enacting stricter water standards on the state after an agreement between the two had been reached several years ago.

In the ongoing battle for customers between the world’s two largest wind turbine manufacturers, Vestas Wind Systems A/S (OTC: VWDRY.PK) and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI),  Siemens has scored a major victory.

Buildings are the biggest energy hogs on the planet, accounting for about 40 percent of energy consumption. An army of companies from mom and pops to multinationals are selling and installing products to make existing buildings more efficient.

Your grandfather told you that a penny saved was a penny earned. Today we are featuring a handful of very large companies that have earned hundreds of millions of dollars by saving their customers equally huge amounts on energy costs: Honeywell International Inc.

Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) reported increased revenues and profits today in its first quarterly results as a publicly traded company since completing its $86 million initial public offering (IPO) July 22, 2010.

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received an additional $2.1 Million in funding from the EPA as they embark on examining

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star Leaders prevented the equivalent of more than 220,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and saved more than US$48 million across their commercial building portfolios.