A year of record heat
Every month since March 2016, I’ve posted an article that is almost exactly the same every time. For the nth month in a row, I’ve written, we’ve had a month that broke the temperature record historically.
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Entries by Landon Hall
Big oil companies reap windfall from ethanol rules
Environmental regulations designed to boost the amount of ethanol blended into the U.S. gasoline supply have inadvertently become a multibillion-dollar windfall for some of the world’s biggest oil companies.
Report: Clean cars to usher in health savings
Transitioning California’s fleet of passenger cars, SUVs and light trucks into nonpolluting electric and fuel cell vehicles would save the state’s residents as much as $15 billion a year, mostly in health care savings, a new analysis has found.
CO2 levels mark ‘new era’ in the world’s changing climate
While the El Niño factor has now disappeared, the human impact on climate change has not, the WMO argues.
‘Super yeast’ has the power to improve economics of biofuels
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel.
Warning: ExxonMobil may be in irreversible decline
ExxonMobil, like the rest of Big Oil, is in the midst of a serious slump.
Air pollution on Wall Street might actually be bringing down the stock market
Every week, it seems, we learn more about the consequences of air pollution — and in particular of the smallest airborne particles, known to scientists by the name PM2.5, which are capable of traveling deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, and from there, causing havoc.
OPEC may need help to end the global glut of oil
Even if OPEC defies a skeptical market by implementing output cuts in full, it still won’t drain the ocean of surplus oil already pumped from the ground.
Tesla zooms into the black with $21.9 million quarterly profit as vehicle sales jump
Tesla Motors reported just the second quarterly profit in its history as a public company, reversing a string of consecutive losses.
Audi dumps Le Mans for electric upstart Formula E
Audi announced this morning that they will end their participation in the series it spent a decade dominating, the World Endurance Championship—including the 24 Hours of Le Mans—to shift their focus to the all-electric Formula E championship. It’s one of the biggest shifts the racing world has seen in some time.
