In a surprising victory for President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, the Senate on Wednesday voted to uphold an Obama-era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.
Even as the Trump administration weighs withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, a new scientific paper has documented growing fluxes of greenhouse gases streaming into the air from the Alaskan tundra, a long-feared occurrence that could worsen climate change.
One recent afternoon at a Shell-branded station on the outskirts of Rotterdam, the price of a gallon of unleaded gas started ticking higher, rising more than 3.5 cents by closing time.
NPR’s Rachel Martin had a fascinating interview on Tuesday with Katharine Hayhoe, a renowned climate scientist and evangelical Christian, in which they discussed the toxic nature of the world “climate denier” — a word that environmental reporters use all the time.
Once a leader in electrification, Nissan has since become complacent with the Leaf and the refresh has been long overdue. The 2018 version of the all-electric vehicle is expected to finally change that with a much longer range and a new design.
President Trump will now wait until after the G-7 meeting in late May before making a decision about whether to keep the U.S. in the Paris climate agreement, his press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
The California Air Resource Board is making moves to accelerate reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by putting more clean vehicles on roads and highways in its home state.
Volkswagen was a little more than a month away from the biggest crisis in its history when Oliver Schmidt, a high-ranking engineer for the carmaker who dealt with regulators in the United States, wrote a reassuring email to his superiors.
Beijing removed 180,000 old and polluting vehicles from its roads in the first four months of 2017, the Chinese capital’s environmental bureau has said, as part of its efforts to tackle congestion and cut smog.
Hopes for a quick reduction in crude oil consumption and CO2 emissions have been raised by improvements in range of EVs and the introduction of new models by all major auto manufacturers. Despite this, barriers to general popularity remain.
