Saudis take 100 percent control of America’s largest oil refinery
Saudi Aramco, the kingdom’s state-owned oil behemoth, took 100% control of the sprawling Port Arthur refinery in Texas on Monday, completing a deal that was first announced last year.
Maui farm prepares to harvest first sunflower biofuel crop
Pacific Biodiesel Technologies is cultivating a 14-acre sunflower field as part of an initial 115-acre crop project site dedicated to growing combine-harvested oil crops on land previously used for sugar cane production.
Surprise: 70 percent of millenials do not want electric vehicles
However, Tesla, the car manufacturer most closely associated with electric vehicles, is the favored brand of 13 to 19-year-olds.
Exxon released 10 million pounds of air pollution in Texas
A Texas court ordered Exxon to pay $20 million in fines for pollutants released into the air at the Baytown, Texas refining and chemical plant outside of Houston.
VW’s electric vehicle investment plan overlooks poor, critics say
An $800 million investment proposal from Volkswagen aimed at increasing the adoption of zero-emission vehicles in California has come under sharp criticism from elected officials, regulators and advocacy organizations.
BMW is trying to scare staff into loving electric cars
“We’re in the midst of an electric assault,” the presenter intones as the Tesla Inc. chief’s photo pops up. “This must be taken very seriously.”
California’s landmark climate-change program would also fight air pollution under proposal
As the Legislature weighs the future of cap and trade, California’s groundbreaking program to cut greenhouse gas emissions that expires in 2020, it is considering key changes pushed by environmentalists and fought by Big Oil and other industry groups.
Rising seas claiming California’s coast faster than scientists imagined
A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores — climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beachfront and overwhelming low-lying cities.
As the climate changes, risks to human health will accelerate, White House warns
The study, more than 300 pages long and several years in the making, focuses on what the White House has described as one of the gravest threats to the nation: major health problems associated with climate change.
The electric car revolution now faces its biggest test
If you took a spin down to the New York International Auto Show last week and saw the $37,500 Chevy Bolt (electric) parked next to the strikingly similar $17,000 Chevy Cruze (gasoline), the answer is probably a hard no.
