Adam Aston

Recent Articles by Adam Aston

November 18, 2009

China's Surprising Clout in Cleantech

If President Barack Obama succeeds in pushing through climate legislation in 2010, U.S. electric power companies could end up having to pay around $20 for each ton of ...

November 14, 2009

China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant

China's Suntech Power Holdings (STP) is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.'s largest solar panel installation at Nellis Air Force...

November 12, 2009

China and U.S. Energy Giants Team Up for 'Clean Coal'

Inside the Beltway, China is often cast as an environmental villain. Some lawmakers point to Beijing's skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions as their main argument ...

November 11, 2009

Power from Pond Scum

Kevin Berner, the 52-year-old CEO and founder of Phycal, is betting that green lagoons of algae are the cure for America's fossil-fuel addiction. Corn may be a good ...

October 8, 2009

Betting Big on a Boom in Natural Gas

Earlier this year the time came for Lloyd M. Yates, CEO of Progress Energy (PGN), to decide how the big Raleigh (N.C.) utility would meet the state's stringent ...

August 25, 2009

Review: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid/Mercury Milan Hybrid

Up Front It's no secret that Detroit has had trouble breaking its addiction to SUVs. This has been true even in the market for green cars. In their push into hybrids, ...

July 29, 2009

Green Business

Green Business.

July 16, 2009

The Next Energy Innovators

Like many eco-conscious homeowners, Darin Budwig and his wife had long wanted to put solar panels on their roof in suburban Glendale, Calif. What stopped them was the ...

June 25, 2009

Green Business

Green Business.

May 14, 2009

Can China Go Green?

China's unprecedented growth in recent years has come at a terrible price. Two-thirds of its rivers and lakes are too polluted for industrial use, let alone ...