U.S. and Alaska state officials announced they will no longer seek an additional $92 million from Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for environmental cleanup and restoration stemming from the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill nearly three decades ago.
If you follow the news on climate change, you’ve probably noticed a shift toward apocalyptic headlines over the last year or so, especially when the topic is Antarctica. But lost in all the hype is an important message: It’s not too late to save a really, really huge proportion of the ice the frozen continent contains—and thus, virtually every coastal city on Earth.
Toyota, under ambitious environmental targets, is aiming to sell hardly any regular gasoline vehicles by 2050, only hybrids and fuel cells, to radically reduce emissions.
It’s a remarkable turnaround for the company more identified with its so-called “clean diesels” both in Europe and North America than for anything with a plug.
Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change, the governor of Alaska has told the BBC.
Cutting ozone, the lung-damaging gas in smog, to federal health standards while meeting state targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions will require a radical transformation of California’s transportation sector over the next two decades, air quality officials and experts say.
I must admit I’ve always been a little skeptical about this idea that diesel can be a “clean-burning fuel.” Anyone who has ever gotten stuck sitting behind a bus in traffic is likely to agree. Read more →
The claim that such a small number of people could have pulled off such a massive fraud brought immediate skepticism from lawmakers and industry experts.
NASA’s largest awards of this round of funding went to MIT and Wyle Laboratories, a research contractor in Virginia, to investigate the environmental impact of commercial supersonic flight and how turbulence affects sonic booms, respectively.
Chelsea Edwards, a volunteer campaigner with Divest London, explained why she was standing in the rain to scream at attendees of the black tie event: “We’re here because the annual oil and money conference is on, [and] it’s a grotesque reminder of how much oil companies are not heeding the warning of global warming.”
