Venezuela: Latin America’s ticking time bomb
Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, surely goes down as leader of the most dysfunctional, basket case country in Latin America.
Why California’s most polluting vehicles aren’t required to get smog checks
It’s California’s dirty little emissions secret.
We may have even less time to stop global warming than we thought
At least since 2013, one of the biggest concerns in the climate change debate has been the so-called carbon budget — a fixed limit to the volume of carbon dioxide emissions that we can put into the atmosphere before irrevocably committing to a considerably hotter planet.
E15 bill stalls in Senate, as oil state senator pushes back
Efforts by oil lobbyists to squelch legislation expanding the sale of gasoline with higher concentrations of ethanol seems to be working.
Drivers should brace for higher gas prices: AAA
Drivers have benefited from unusually low gasoline prices to start the summer, but the reprieve will be short lived, AAA said Thursday.
Much of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has disappeared because of bacteria
Researchers from several leading institutions in the United States say they have discovered a new kind of naturally occurring underwater bacteria that has eaten a considerable portion of the oil that spilled out of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.
Volkswagen to pay millions more in California for diesel scandal
Volkswagen agreed Thursday to pay California an additional $153.8 million in the carmaker’s diesel air-pollution scandal.
The U.S. is not ready to clean up an Arctic oil spill
No viable methods exist to clean up oil from ice and drilling would occur in incredibly remote areas
China’s verdant ‘forest city’ will fight pollution with a million plants
If tree-covered skyscrapers act like enormous air filters, this cluster of buildings will be a clean air oasis.
