California PG&E customers can get $20,500 off new 2017-2018 BMW i3s, dropping to base price to $24,000
Pacific Gas and Electric joins Southern California Edison customers and New Jersey’s PSE&G customers in getting the $10,000 rebate.
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Volkswagen bets big on electric with $25 billion battery bonanza
After seriously tarnishing its reputation with the diesel scandal, Volkswagen Group has changed strategy.
Tesla employees say automaker is churning out a high volume of flawed parts requiring costly rework
The flaws are leading to more rework and repairs than can be contained at its factory in Fremont, California, current and former employees say.
Federal plan to auction mineral rights near Great Sands Dunes National Park opposed by environmentalists
Move follows a push by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to hasten energy development on federal lands
EPA chief signals showdown with California on fuel emission standards
The Trump administration’s chief environmental regulator signaled a coming showdown with California, warning the state won’t dictate the future of ambitious automobile fuel economy regulations enacted by the Obama administration.
Electric cars are becoming increasingly greener in the US thanks to a cleaner electric grid
The argument that electric vehicles are just as polluting as gas-powered vehicles because they consume electricity produced from polluting sources like coal plants has been debunked on many occasions at this point.
Mike Pompeo, climate policy foe, picked to replace Tillerson as Secretary of State
Trump fired Rex Tillerson, a former Exxon CEO who supported staying in the Paris climate accord. Pompeo is a Koch brothers ally and climate policy critic.
Trump rollbacks target offshore rules ‘written with human blood’
A dozen miles off the coast, on a rusty, aging platform, workers in hard hats and overalls spend their days extracting oil and gas from the ocean floor before retreating at night into tiny weather-beaten steel cubes that act as dorms.
Judge: Trump administration violated law over smog findings
The Trump administration violated federal law when it failed to meet a deadline to identify all parts of the U.S. that don’t meet air quality standards for smog, a federal judge ruled.
Interior Department will soon launch regulatory process to pursue lease sale in ANWR, officials say
Top Interior Department officials visited two northern Alaska communities this week to tell residents that the agency will soon launch the regulatory process to lease lands to oil drillers in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
