Keep riding the subway, by all means, but know it’s not as green as you think
Say you’re a city, the wannabe green kind, full of citizens who want to sustain the planet.
California upholds emissions standards, setting up face-off with Trump
California’s clean-air agency voted on Friday to push ahead with stricter emissions standards for cars and trucks, setting up a potential legal battle with the Trump administration over the state’s plan to reduce planet-warming gases.
Oil theft ‘provides billions for terrorists and drug cartels’
Mexican drug gangs can earn $90,000 in seven minutes from tapping a pipeline of refined oil, while insurgents in Nigeria financially benefit from a share of the third of the country’s refined oil exports that is lost to theft, says the Atlantic Council.
Saudi Arabia’s oil supremacy falters
The world’s biggest crude exporter is rejiggering its long-held strategy of clinging to market share.
Ignore politicians: Weakened fuel-economy rules don’t create jobs, analyst says
A common refrain among critics of current and future fuel-economy standards is that the need to comply with them produces job cuts in the auto industry.
Researchers test hotter, faster and cleaner way to fight oil spills
The invention, the Flame Refluxer, is “very simple,” says Ali Rangwala, a professor of fire protection engineering: Imagine a giant Brillo pad of copper wool sandwiched between layers of copper screen, with springy copper coils attached to the top.
How climate change covered China in smog
When smog gets bad, the air becomes more than a coolness on your skin or a haze on the horizon. When smog gets bad, you can taste it.
2 bills in Oregon Legislature aim to curb, prevent oil-train disasters
Native Americans, environmentalists and a fishing guide spoke out Monday in support of two bills that aim to prevent, or at least mitigate, an ecological disaster like an oil spill into the Columbia River.
Behind the quiet state-by-state fight over electric vehicles
When Georgia repealed its generous $5,000 tax credit on electric vehicles in July 2015, and instead slapped a $200 registration fee on electric cars, sales quickly tumbled.
More electric vehicles are coming. But can cities power them?
The gas and electric company in Spokane, Wash., is giving away electric car charging stations, at least temporarily, and cities across the country are watching to see how it goes.
