Gas guzzlers rule in China
The Chinesegovernment’s plan to replace gasoline-powered cars with a new generation of electric vehicles has hit an unexpected bump: Chinese consumers’ love affair with gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles.
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Entries by Landon Hall
Energy Dept. nominee questions legality of Trump’s proposal for oil reserve
Dan Brouillette, Rick Perry’s pick to be his number two at the Department of Energy, questioned the Trump administration’s proposal to sell off oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help balance the federal budget during a Senate hearing Thursday.
It’s smog season. Here’s what you need to know
So far this year, Southern California has endured 27 days with unhealthful levels of ozone, the hallmark pollutant of smog, making this spring the worst start of a smog season since 2008, according to state data.
The best thing that can happen to electric cars is what happened to PCs in the 1990s
At this moment, the idea that we’re on the brink of electric cars becoming cheaper to build than combustion cars is getting a lot of traction, along with the idea that EVs will be as cheap to own as the loud kind of car even sooner.
Scientists just published an entire study refuting Scott Pruitt on climate change
In a sign of growing tensions between scientists and the Trump administration, have published a scientific paper that was conceived and written as an explicit refutation to an assertion by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about climate change.
Oil led to Pearl Harbor
Few people realize that it was oil — the shortage of oil — that precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
OPEC, non-OPEC extend oil output cut by nine months to fight glut
OPEC and non-members led by Russia decided on Thursday to extend cuts in oil output by nine months to March 2018 as they battle a global glut of crude after seeing prices halve and revenues drop sharply in the past three years.
Fighting Trump on climate, California becomes a global force
The environmental ministers of Canada and Mexico went to San Francisco last month to sign a global pact — drafted largely by California — to lower planet-warming greenhouse pollution.
A Chinese student praised the ‘fresh air of free speech’ at a U.S. college. Then came the backlash.
When Yang Shuping spoke Sunday of her eternal gratitude to the University of Maryland for teaching her about “free speech” and showing her that her “voice mattered,” she may not have realized just how much it mattered.
Get ready for peak oil demand
The world’s largest oil companies are girding for the biggest shift in energy consumption since the Industrial Revolution: After decades of growth, global demand for oil is poised to peak and fall in the coming years.
