Senior U.S. government officials held talks in recent weeks with California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) to discuss the goal of maintaining one set of national requirements for automakers, a move that will determine the fate of vehicle emissions rules.
After Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke excluded Florida from his policy opening virtually the entire coastline of the continental U.S. to offshore oil drilling, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., complained that the administration was playing favorites.
More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.
New York City sued five major oil companies, claiming they have contributed to global warming, on the same day officials announced they will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city’s pension funds.
The Trump Administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and gas drilling operations safer after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Congressional Republicans allowed a tax on oil companies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars annually for federal oil-spill response efforts to expire — a move that amounts to another corporate break in the wake of lawmakers’ sweeping tax overhaul late last month.
There are fears of an environmental disaster in the East China Sea as a tanker continues leaking oil two days after colliding with a cargo ship.
As electric charging stations continue to sprout across the country, hydrogen fueling stations haven’t experienced the same rapid growth.
In the decades since a 1969 oil spill near Santa Barbara tarred sea-life and gave rise to the U.S. environmental movement, politicians and environmental activists have built up ample ways to make it difficult but not impossible for the Trump administration to renew drilling off California’s coast
Tesla’s first mass-market offering keeps encountering roadblocks.
