Air pollution has become a major contributor to stroke for the first time, with unclean air now blamed for nearly one third of the years of healthy life lost to the condition worldwide.
Regulators are one step closer to adopting new standards for oil trains that Congress mandated last year.
From plunging fuel prices to soaring SUV sales, several factors have emerged that could plausibly impact fuel economy performance.
U.S. auto safety regulators have chastised Tesla Motors over reports that it used nondisclosure agreements with consumers in exchange for covering out-of-warranty repair costs on some of vehicles
One of the main Hydrogen players, FirstElement Fuel, which builds the True Zero Hydrogen Network, 18 months ago set a target of 19 stations by 2015.
There’s another Democrat-on-Democrat struggle going on in the race for the California Assembly that’s full of suspense. It’s another episode in Big Oil’s ongoing fight to roll back the state’s ambitious climate laws.
Edward Niedermeyer, who blogs at the Daily Kanban, is a Tesla skeptic. He acknowledges that Tesla has done an impressive job so far. But he predicts that its next big project — bringing electric cars to the masses with the $35,000 Model 3 — will be a much harder challenge.
Some 20,000 shipwrecks litter U.S. waters, but most don’t pose any threat because their oil has already spilled out, they never carried any to begin with or the ships have decayed because they were made of wood or other less durable materials. However, a few sunken ships along American coasts continue to keep officials up at night.
Almost 16 years after Harvard researcher Naomi Oreskes first documented an overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, a research team confirmed that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening.
With damaged tank cars still lying near to the tracks in Mosier, the site of Friday’s fiery oil train derailment, Union Pacific said Monday it would temporarily suspend moving oil trains through the Columbia River Gorge.
