Pollution appears to ease in Beijing amid China’s drive to clear the air
Winters in Beijing have long been choked by thick, dusty, toxic smog. But this winter, the sky has taken on a once seemingly unthinkable hue: blue.
Archive for year: 2018
Tesla’s Model 3: Slowest. Rollout. Ever.
The long-awaited ramp-up for the company’s lower-priced EV just got pushed back another three months. Some investors wonder if Musk will have to raise more cash.
Michigan’s most polluted neighborhood demands justice from Big Oil
Fed-up residents in Michigan’s most polluted zip code say the tar sands refinery next door is causing toxic emissions to waft over their neighborhood—and they want out.
National Review shows why conservatives outsourced environmental policy to lobbyists and kooks
Other than the handful of hard-core climate-science skeptics who have invested their professional reputations in the cause of denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming, and will never admit defeat, the subject of climate change tends to embarrass professional conservatives.
U.S. regulators meet with California on fate of vehicle fuel rules
Senior U.S. government officials held talks in recent weeks with California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) to discuss the goal of maintaining one set of national requirements for automakers, a move that will determine the fate of vehicle emissions rules.
‘Cheaper, cleaner, American made’ message reaches across the aisle
The past year was quite a whirlwind, especially on the policy front. Unlike many advocacy organizations, Fuel Freedom was well positioned to continue progress both philosophically and with the relationships we have built over the past few years. Read more →
As Florida evades Trump drilling plan, California and other coastal states ask, ‘What about us?’
After Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke excluded Florida from his policy opening virtually the entire coastline of the continental U.S. to offshore oil drilling, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., complained that the administration was playing favorites.
EPA officials, disheartened by agency’s direction, are leaving in droves
More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.
NYC sues, divests from oil firms over climate change
New York City sued five major oil companies, claiming they have contributed to global warming, on the same day officials announced they will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city’s pension funds.
Trump’s offshore oil drilling plans ignore the lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon
The Trump Administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and gas drilling operations safer after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
