President Obama announced over 7 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to expand and accelerate the development, deployment, and use of geothermal and solar energy throughout the United States.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu met with world energy leaders on Memorial Day weekend to launch the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation, a high-level forum for facilitating improvements in global energy efficiency.

As the U.S. Department of Labor plans to release 0 million in Recovery Act funds to help prepare workers for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy, DOE has joined forces with the departments of Labor and Education to help spur the growth in green jobs.

The Interior Department will direct Recovery Act funds toward 55 projects to remove "hazardous fuels" from areas susceptible to wildfires. Of those 55 projects, 23 in eight states are designated as biomass utilization projects, which means that the small trees, accumulated deadwood, and underbrush will be converted to energy.

A former naval base on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay and a planned green community in central Florida will be two of the initial sites for the Climate Positive Development Program. The new international effort will develop large-scale urban projects with negative greenhouse gas emissions.

A two-day conference aimed at inspiring energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability in businesses is practicing what it preaches by going entirely online, avoiding all the greenhouse gas emissions that are normally produced while traveling to a conference. The cost to participants: zero.

Thanks to the double-whammy of high energy prices and an economic recession in 2008, U.S. residents drove less and energy-intensive industries produced less product. But the record 2.8% drop in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions can also be partly credited to a growth in wind power.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu met with energy leaders from around the world this weekend to launch the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation, a high-level forum for facilitating improvements in global energy efficiency and encouraging market implementation of energy efficiency technologies.