California Cuts Carbon Emissions Even as Economy Hums
California’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped again in 2017, air quality regulators reported Monday, and the dive occurred without hurting the Golden State’s raging economy.
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Paris Climate Agreement Failing Due to Toothless National Pledges
The ambitious goals set in the Paris Climate Agreement are meant to cutback global greenhouse emissions within the next decade while also exploring how nations move toward renewable forms of energy and how to pay for this new way of life.
Read moreAutomakers Reach Emissions Deal With California, Spurning Trump
Shunning the Trump administration’s push to weaken Obama-era fuel efficiency standards, a group of automakers said Thursday they have reached a deal with California to produce more fuel efficient and electric vehicles.
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Climate Crisis Demands Lavish Spending, Experts Tell House
A climate change expert told lawmakers Wednesday that the window to combat rising global temperatures is still open, but it will require massive spending and research from the United States, on par with the effort to put a man on the moon.
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Automaker Daimler Loses $1.3 Billion on Diesel, Air Bag Woes
Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars, says it lost $1.3 billion in the second quarter as the company booked 4.2 billion euros in one-time charges for troubles with diesel vehicles and air bag recalls.
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Lawmakers Warned of Brain Drain in Climate Science
An iceberg the size of Delaware broke off from the continent of Antarctica in June. Greenland, around the same time, experienced the country’s largest ice melt event on record with temperatures 40 degrees above normal. And, in the past 40 years, the Himalayan glaciers have lost 25% of their ice – the equivalent to 8 billion tons of water each year.
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California Looks at Green Vehicle Incentives to Slash Emissions
A California Senate committee passed a bill Tuesday seeking to increase the number of electric vehicles on the Golden State’s roads.
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German Official Says CO2 Charge Should Benefit the Poor
Germany’s environment minister said Friday that a proposed charge on carbon emissions should benefit people on low incomes and those who use less fossil fuel, amid concern that measures aimed at curbing climate change could stoke social unrest.
Read moreCap-and-Trade Legislation Advances in Oregon
The nation’s second statewide cap-and-trade plan, intended to ratchet down carbon emissions over the next 30 years, passed Monday in Oregon’s House of Representatives.
Read moreResearchers: Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint Equal to Las Vegas
Researchers calculate that the electricity required for the virtual currency bitcoin generates as much carbon dioxide as a city like Las Vegas.
Read moreBiden’s $5 Trillion Climate Plan: Net Zero Emissions by 2050
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is pitching a $5 trillion climate proposal that he says would lead the United States to net zero emission of carbon pollution by 2050.
Read moreGreen New Deal Races to Clean Up NYC — and Its Data
As New York City’s Green New Deal goes into effect on Friday, a Courthouse News investigation shows that city data about the famous skyline’s carbon footprint is self-reported and filled with errors. A newly enacted plan to clean that data will be crucial to a key program of the ambitious environmental initiative.
Read moreJudge Orders EPA to Work Fast to Curb Landfill Emissions
The Trump administration can no longer delay enforcement of Obama-era rules aimed at curbing hazardous air pollution from landfills in California and across the nation, a federal judge has ruled – and took the rare step of demanding status reports every 90 days until the rules are in place.
Read moreGlobal Health Benefits of Tackling Climate Change Outweigh Costs
The costs of cutting back on carbon emissions may not be as pricey as once believed – once the improved health of Earth’s citizens is taken into account.
Read moreFiat Chrysler Must Pay $307 Million in Class Action Settlement
A federal judge on Friday granted final approval of a $307.5 million deal to settle class action claims that Fiat Chrysler sold more than 100,000 vehicles tainted with emissions-cheating software to U.S. consumers.
Read moreHouse Votes to Stop US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Deal
In a bid to stop President Donald Trump from pulling out of the landmark climate deal reached four years ago in Paris, Democrats voted overwhelmingly Thursday for a bill that Senate Republicans have vowed to torpedo.
Read moreTrash Burners Sue Baltimore Over Clean Air Ordinance
Waste-handling companies brought a federal complaint Tuesday against the Baltimore city government, claiming it violated their constitutional rights “by imposing extraordinarily low emission limits” in an effort to shut down two of the city’s major waste incinerators.
Read moreFlying Cars Will Be Better for the Planet – But Only on Long Trips
Flying cars – a future promised to a generation of Americans who grew up watching the 1960s cartoon “The Jetsons” – will eventually add a whole new dimension to transportation, but for now researchers are weighing in on whether that future will help or hurt the planet.
Read moreCalifornia Sues Trump for Vehicle Emissions Data
Vehicle emissions standards are once again at the center of a legal fight between California and the federal government.
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