Smuggled Venezuelan gasoline fuels an entire economy next door
In Venezuela, it costs only pennies to fill a car tank because of huge government subsidies.
Archive for year: 2015
Pope Francis pushes world leaders at U.N. to protect environment
“We human beings are part of the environment,” Francis said. “We live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect. … Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity.”
The wealthiest households claim 90 percent of tax credits for buying electric cars
Almost all of those benefits are going to the wealthiest U.S. households, according to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley, professors Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis.
EPA to change diesel tests to thwart VW-like cheating
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans sweeping changes to the way it tests for diesel emissions after getting duped by clandestine software in Volkswagen cars for seven years.
The connection between cleaner air and longer lives
As a fight brews over President Obama’s new use of the Clean Air Act to address global warming, it’s worth re-examining the vast difference the law has already made in the quality of the air we breathe, and in the length of our lives.
Fracking firms that drove oil boom struggle to survive
A wave of bankruptcies and closures is sweeping across the oil patch, with dozens of hydraulic-fracturing companies at risk, industry experts say.
Exxon Mobil scraps plans for temporary fix to damaged Torrance refinery
Just when Southern California motorists were expecting to see some relief from high gasoline prices in the next few weeks, they now may have to wait well into next winter — at least.
VW owners aren’t going to like the fixes for their diesels
Once the sting of the lie fades, the U.S. customers who bought 482,000 Volkswagen diesel cars will feel the real pain. Because VW will be forced to recall those vehicles and somehow make them to meet federal standards.
What the VW scandal means for clean diesel
When Volkswagen debuted the so-called “clean diesel” Jetta TDI sedan and wagon in 2009, it was regarded as something of a breakthrough.
Pope Francis forcefully urges America to save the planet
During his first address in the United States, Francis pulled no punches when talking about one of the defining issues of his leadership, calling on Americans to protect our “common home” and act on climate change with a sense of urgency.
