Hydrogen is by far the most common element in the universe — it's what stars are mostly made of.

The lightest element might also be the stuff that saves the world, at least in the mind — and garage — of Timothy Dolan, who lives on Chestnut Hill Road in Trumbull. Over the last five years, he has been using the gas to run his barbecue, fuel a gas range, and even operate a lawn mower and a portable generator.

When the Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna, N.Y., finally shut its doors for good eight years ago, it took away thousands of jobs and left behind a polluted and unsightly mess.

But in 2006, while the idle grain elevators and coke ovens sat rusting on the banks of Lake Erie, something unexpected happened. Wind turbines began springing up on a 30-acres section of the former Superfund site in this Buffalo suburb.

energy prices rose yesterday as an October chill across much of the United States sent thermometers plummeting, along with the weakening US currency.

Crude oil declined for a second day in New York after a U.S. energy Department report showed an unexpected increase in fuel stockpiles in the world’s largest energy consuming nation.