With the extension of California’s landmark climate change law stalled, a legislative plan is emerging to significantly up the ante on California’s commitment to electric vehicles by requiring that 15 percent of all new automobiles be emission-free within a decade.
A commander in charge of oil for the Islamic State was killed in operations led by multilateral forces near the Syrian border, the Kurdish government said.
A growing body of research suggests breathing this pollution can have both short-term and long-term health consequences.
Actions speak louder than words. Nope, strike that and reverse it. Rhetoric from Saudi’s oil minister today is emphatically rallying crude prices, as Khalid al-Falih said Saudi would ‘take any action to help the market rebalance’.
Weakness in global oil markets, which has dragged prices to a three-month low, may persist as demand slows seasonally and fuel inventories remain abundant, OPEC predicted.
Saudi Arabia, faced with dwindling oil income, has sharply increased government fees such as visa charges as part of a range of measures aimed at raising revenue from non-oil sources.
The nation of 1.3 billion people can make at least 2 million tons of biodiesel annually by processing used cooking oil from restaurant chains, says the head of an Indian government panel that’s looking at the potential for fuels derived from plants.
For the first time since January 2014, the U.S. imported more crude oil last week than it produced, thanks largely to a surge in OPEC supply.
U.S. gasoline prices are set to fall below $2 a gallon on average in October and stay there through the winter, government forecasters said this week.
If air pollution standards were tightened just a little bit, thousands of lives might be saved each year, a new study suggests.
