geothermal energy

This article was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. STARR COUNTY—In 2009, on a plot of shrub-covered cattle land about 45 miles northwest of McAllen, Shell buried and abandoned a well it drilled to look for gas. […]

What once was an abandoned department store in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, is now a boutique hotel that is unusually good at conserving energy. The most efficient elements of Hotel Verdant are not visible to the general public, things like a geothermal heating system underground and thick insulation beneath the roof. But energy conservation is a […]