Energy

Funding from the California Energy Commission will pay to replace 200 diesel-powered buses with all-electric vehicles.

Stan Bergkamp, a physics and chemistry teacher at Maize High School near Wichita, persuaded the school board to install a 720-panel photovoltaic array in a field next to the school.

Researchers will compare energy use of the solar-powered facility with a twin house powered with traditional energy sources.

Continuing cleanup will keep Lafayette Academy and Rosenwald Collegiate Academy out of their permanent campuses in 2019-20

Officials say the university's commitment to buy about 200,000 megawatts of energy per year from local utility will help it reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mercury vapors have been detected in 8 of the 11 schools in the Washington Township (N.J.) district.

Following a chemical plant fire in Deer Park, Texas, that burned for four days, health officials have detected elevated levels of benzene in the area.