The nation’s largest freight railroad has agreed to more thorough inspections and maintenance improvements after a fiery oil train derailment in Oregon and the discovery of more than 800 potential safety violations across its sprawling network.
Diving deeper into this year’s striking election results, there’s one trend that nearly all the analysts agree on, at least in hindsight. Candidates ignore rural America at their peril.
The Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell is the most expensive vehicle of its kind, and offers far less range than its competitors. Fortunately, the automaker is preparing a second-generation fuel cell vehicle that is slated to launch globally in January 2018.
The Sierra Club commissioned a study that tracked automotive advertising in 2015. The result in a nutshell: manufacturers advertise for their gasoline-powered vehicles far more than for their electric-powered cars.
Countries — U.S., France, Netherlands — are testing ways to pave roads with solar panels. Their plans have skeptics.
The debate over the future of fuel efficiency policies is generating a lot of noise. But for consumers, these policies generate savings at the pump.
Oil prices edged up in tepid trading on Thursday, supported by strong U.S. data, a pause in the U.S. dollar rally and optimism that crude producers would abide by an agreement to limit output to prop up prices.
In a bid to solidify his environmental legacy, President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he will use his executive authority to issue a permanent ban on offshore drilling in federal waters off the southern Atlantic coast and in the Arctic.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday he’s concerned about the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, the federal mandate that requires ethanol and biodiesel to be blended into the nation’s fuel supply.
After months of anticipation, the Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed what environmental activists have long believed: Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), long seen by oil and gas companies as the future of domestic energy production in the United States, carries a significant human cost.
