When the smog plaguing Los Angeles reached distressing levels in the early 1950s, the city hired Arie Haagen-Smit to study the cause. Not only was Haagen-Smit a scientist specializing in airborne microscopic chemicals, he was also angry about the state of the city’s air. His work swiftly determined that the culprit was oil.
Colorado adopted tougher air pollution rules for the oil and gas industry — the first in the nation to cover methane, a gas linked to climate change.
Volkswagen has received regulatory approval for technical fixes on some models, it said on Friday, meaning it could now recall more than 800,000 of the 8.5 million cars affected by its diesel emissions scandal in Europe.
A fairly direct way to eliminate air pollution from car exhaust emissions is to simply get rid of the cars themselves.Next month, Paris officials will attempt to do just that.
Big Oil must love income inequality and our country’s shocking racial wealth gap. The industry’s latest campaign aims to perpetuate these injustices while attacking California’s efforts against climate change.
The specter of a late 2017 release of the Tesla Model 3 is already having a profound effect on sales of the world’s most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf. At least that’s what electrek and others are suggesting.
Since the signing of the Paris climate accord in December, have we made any progress in cutting global emissions?
We’re trying to do something that we’ve never done before,” said Erik Cordes, a Temple University coral expert who’s studied the corals damaged by the spill and worked on the government’s restoration plans. “We are in uncharted waters here.”
Oil and other contaminates from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill — one of the worst environmental disasters in history — likely lingered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for months longer than experts originally predicted, according to a new study.
In April, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a little over 1 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol was produced in the first quarter of 2016.
