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As speculation mounts over the shape of president-elect Obama's energy policy, Al Gore laid out a multifaceted plan to make the U.S. electricity system carbon-free in 10 years.
In an opinion column published Sunday in the The New York Times, Gore said the federal government should fund projects to upgrade the nation's aging power grid and install renewable-energy sources.

Utility executives on Monday warned of skyrocketing electricity prices if the country is forced to limit greenhouse gases and new technology to capture carbon emissions from coal does not pay off.

President-elect Barack Obama's stated goal of cutting climate changing carbon-dioxide emissions is just another reason that a proposal to build two 700-megawatt coal-burning power plants in southwest Kansas makes no sense, a group of environmentalists said Monday.

U.S. Steel will delay plans to build a $450 million coking-coal substitute plant in Alabama because of slowing steel demand. Construction hasn't begun because environmental permits the company applied for in April, when the project was announced, haven't been issued, John Armstrong, a U.S. Steel spokesman, said yesterday. U.S. Steel said in April that it would invest $150 million in the project's first phase.

May end up in court. The company wanting to build a controversial coal-fired power plant in Sevier County is reconsidering its options - now that the public has a say in its future.

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Al Gore Details Five-step Plan to Clean Electricity

Utility Executives Fear New Technology a Gamble

New Study by Environmental Group Questions Viability of Coal-Burning Plants

U.S. Steel Pulls Back on Alabama Plant Project

Utah Coal-Fired Power-Plant Debate Not Over