In Europe, where three-quarters of the world’s diesel cars are sold, concerns over rising air pollution from diesel motor tailpipes have fueled calls for a radical rebalancing of the region’s road fuel mix for some time.
The Obama administration said Monday it has finalized the terms of a record $20.8 billion dollar settlement with BP PLC over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. rig count is down 56% from this time last year. The rig count decline has hit some areas harder than others.
The U.S. government’s testing underestimates how much fuel cars will burn on the road, and the problem has gotten worse, according to a study released on Thursday.
The oil slump has claimed at least 28,300 oil and gas jobs in Texas since December as the industry continues to pare back amid the worst downturn in years, according to the latest estimates released by an industry group.
As the Paris climate talks loom ever closer and the prospects of a global deal become more real, the world’s biggest businesses are scrambling to show that they, too, are serious about tackling climate change.
The research underlines how much progress governments have made in their promises to fight climate change. Envoys from more than 190 countries gathered by the United Nations aim to seal an agreement in Paris in December to limit fossil-fuel emissions everywhere for the first time.
Over the past 6 weeks, 3 new products have hit the US market after exactly zero had arrived in almost the first 8 months of the year. If everything goes as planned, there should be at least 6 more to come in the last quarter, leading to much higher, record breaking EV sales in America.
The Environmental Protection Agency will propose tightening limits on smog-related pollution Thursday, according to individuals briefed on the decision, but the new standard will fall short of what environmentalists and public health experts had recommended.
Climate change costs an incredible amount of money. But efforts to include those costs in permitting projects just took another hit, when the House voted to pass the RAPID Act, a bill intended to streamline permitting processes.
