At the session, called “Companies and Climate Change: Taking Action to the Next Level,” sustainability experts from the likes of Facebook and the World Wildlife Fund came to a few—but only a few—common conclusions.
Just three years ago this month, the carbon dioxide monitoring station atop Hawaii’s Mauna Loa reached a significant milestone: the first measurement of CO2 concentrations that exceeded the benchmark of 400 parts per million (ppm). Now, they may never again dip below it.
The Obama administration tried to strike a cautious compromise Wednesday in setting quotas for a controversial renewable fuels program that pits Big Oil against Corn Belt interests.
Tesla Motors said it would offer about $2 billion in stock, mainly to help it ramp up production of its new Model 3 electric car over the next two years.
The most promising and economical approach identified by the automakers is to greatly expand the use of turbocharging and high compression ratio engines. And that will require an increase in the octane rating of our gasoline.
Basically, every part of air pollution is bad for you, and researchers just found two more toxins to add to the list: nickel and vanadium.
You would think everyone supports clean air, but this isn’t the case. All along the Pacific Coast, the oil and fossil fuel industry has aligned its political spending and lobbying might against clean energy and climate protection.
A pipeline company said Tuesday it has been indicted in connection with a massive oil spill last year in Santa Barbara County.
Oil prices hit six-month highs on Monday on worries about global supply outages and as long-time bear Goldman Sachs sounded more positive on the market, although a stockpile build at the U.S. storage hub for crude futures limited gains.
What if President Barack Obama’s biggest achievement on climate change was actually a total failure?
