After months of anticipation, the Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed what environmental activists have long believed: Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), long seen by oil and gas companies as the future of domestic energy production in the United States, carries a significant human cost.
Electric cars have been a tough sell this year, what with gas being so cheap and all. But the Chevrolet Bolt is more than just a Nissan Leaf fighter with better range: it’s now a testbed for everything General Motors wants to do with the future of cars, including autonomy.
Nigeria’s state oil company lost more than 1.5 trillion naira ($4.8 billion) as a result of attacks on pipelines and facilities by militants in 2016, its managing director said Wednesday.
Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn’t even set a date for completion.
Fracking, it turns out, is a remarkably nimble industry—which perhaps, in retrospect, should not have been such a surprise.
A new report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program has found that 33 states and Washington D.C. have managed to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions while simultaneously growing their economies.
Battery-powered electric cars outsold gasoline ones at the dawn of the automotive age. In a decade or so they may well do so again. Investors need to watch out they don’t get caught on the wrong side of history.
More Americans say environmental regulations are “worth the cost” than say such regulations come at too steep a price, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Methane warms planet 20 times as much as similar CO2 volumes, but lack of monitoring means scientists can’t be sure of sources.
General Motors is aiming for more widespread sales of the 238-mile 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, which went on sale in California yesterday.
