Four policies can reduce U.S. transport emissions 45%, cut oil use 23%, save 5,300 lives per year
America’s transportation sector is undergoing a profound shift toward cleaner and more efficient vehicles.
Archive for year: 2017
Rising seas are flooding Virginia’s naval base, and there’s no plan to fix it
Naval Station Norfolk, home to the Atlantic Fleet, floods not just in heavy rains or during hurricanes. It floods when the sun is shining, too, if the tide is high or the winds are right. It floods all the time.
Electric cars emit 50% less greenhouse gas than diesel, study finds
Electric cars emit significantly less greenhouse gases over their lifetimes than diesel engines even when they are powered by the most carbon intensive energy, a new report has found.
Honda sports EV concept is exactly the EV sports car we want
Hot on the heels of the Urban EV Concept shown at the Frankfurt show, Honda has another electric car, and it’s exactly what we as enthusiasts hoped for
‘Around here, you’re either eating steak or you’re eating beans’
Back when just about every oil pump jack in town was running, Tara Smith had more work than she could handle.
Trump administration to lease 77 million acres in Gulf of Mexico
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the sale, scheduled for March, would open an area the size of New Mexico to drilling, including all unleased areas on the Gulf’s outer continental shelf.
A huge salmon die-off is happening — and our cars might be responsible
A recent study traced a major coho salmon die-off to contaminants from roads and automobiles — brake dust, oil, fuel, chemical fluids — that hitch a ride on storm water and flow into watersheds.
London’s £10 T-charge comes into effect in fight against toxic car fumes
People driving older, more polluting petrol and diesel vehicles will be liable for the £10 T-charge, on top of the congestion charge of £11.50, which has been in place since 2003.
Experts who sold the idea of oil exports proven very wrong very fast
As Bloomberg put it recently, today “crude oil gushes out of the U.S. like never before.”
A string of dangerous accidents in Alaska sends BP reeling
Internal emails, recordings, interviews, and other documentation obtained by BuzzFeed News show how BP Alaska executives are struggling to “reset” the company’s safety culture after five dangerous accidents this year alone.
