Despite its recent and almost unprecedented rise in popularity in recent years, mining for Bitcoin may come with a steep and unintended price tag – an upcoming spike in carbon emissions.
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The cost of global warming will far outweigh the cost of rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions, more than 700 economists from around the world said Tuesday in an unprecedented call to climate action.
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The lawsuit seeking tighter regulations on emissions was brought by families from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Kenya and Fiji, as well as a Swedish association representing indigenous people.
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PARIS (AFP) — Sea bed bottom trawling produces as much as 1 billion tons of carbon annually — equivalent to
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A third of all the world’s man-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food, according to new global research that tracked produce from field to fork to landfill.
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China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced generally moderate new energy and climate targets on Friday that give little sign that it will step up its pace in combatting climate change.
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Even the cuts many nations have already made — and targets they’ve already met — are woefully inadequate.
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Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly in December compared with the same month of 2019, indicating the sharp drop seen due to the pandemic was short-lived.
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The closure of the Nikel smelter is part of a global strategy aimed at transforming Norilsk Nickel, also known as Nornickel, into an environmentally friendly company — or at the very least, limiting its environmental impact.
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The newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what’s needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new United Nations report finds.
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The state auditor called on the air pollution management board to show more evidence its expensive incentive programs are working to reduce emissions while producing the socioeconomic gains the agency purports.
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A federal court in Minnesota dismissed the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association’s suit challenging the state’s emissions standards for new automobiles, finding the claims are “not ripe for judicial review.”
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Ford announced a major push into electric vehicles in Europe, vowing to convert its entire passenger car lineup on the continent to electrics by 2030.
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Several aspects of a Trump-era EPA policy were found to have let states skirt rules aimed at cutting harmful emissions.
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Environmentalists urged the Third Circuit on Friday to expand the reporting duties owed by U.S. Steel after harmful emissions lingered in a Pennsylvania town for three months following a plant fire.
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General Motors, the fourth largest automaker in the world, announced a progressive plan Thursday to become a carbon neutral company by 2040, aiming to cut off sales of most new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
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The climate change proposal would force companies like Amazon and Apple to reveal the full extent of their carbon footprints and meet new state-mandated reduction goals.
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Oil companies burning off unwanted natural gas wouldn’t take much of a financial hit by doing away with the controversial
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California officials and environmentalists are claiming victory after President Joe Biden directed federal regulators to put the brakes on his predecessor’s attempt to gift automakers with a nationwide fuel emissions standard that would have allowed them to produce cheaper, dirtier cars.
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On the last full day of his presidency, Donald Trump’s yearslong effort to shut down Obama-era clean air protections targeting power plants went up in smoke in the D.C. Circuit.
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