Company executive blames decade-old oil leak on ‘act of God’
A decade-old oil leak that could last for another century was caused by an “act of God” during a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, the president of the company responsible said Wednesday.
Air pollution goes back way further than you think
When Beijing issues a red alert closing schools and restricting traffic because air pollution is ten times the World Health Organization’s recommended level, it seems like another symptom of modern life.
The dirty truth about ‘clean diesel’
Volkswagen played a leading role in convincing people to accept a technology that in many countries is causing a precipitous decline in air quality for millions of city-dwellers: the diesel engine.
DOJ seeking billions from Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche in new lawsuit
The Justice Department has filed a federal lawsuit against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche that seeks billions of dollars in penalties over claims that the car companies installed devices to deliberately misreport emissions.
Musk: Don’t fine Volkswagen, make it produce zero-emissions cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has joined several other industry heavyweights urging California to change its response to the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Report: Atlantic drilling would offer $0 to states, not $19 billion
A new report from the Center for a Blue Economy suggests that the southern Atlantic states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia — would see little to no benefit from offshore drilling, while putting a critical piece of their economies and lifestyles at risk.
The Paris agreement is the shove the world needs
The big criticism of the landmark Paris climate deal is its lack of enforcement mechanisms. If India keeps burning coal like crazy, it won’t face fines or sanctions. Nobody is going to invade Nigeria if it fails to lower emissions. What the critics don’t understand, however, is that this is a feature, not a bug. How else would you get 195 countries to sign off on it?
Switching the world to electric vehicles will take way longer than you think
If laws were passed tomorrow to limit the number of new internal-combustion cars, it would likely take almost two decades to bring half the overall fleet in that jurisdiction to electric propulsion.
Government flex-fuel vehicles must use E85 where available
With nearly 30 percent of government vehicles being flex-fuel vehicles, the regional transportation director wants to remind those driving government flex-fuel vehicles to fill up with E85 fuel where it is available.
Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris
With the sudden bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 countries reached a landmark climate accord that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of climate change.
