EPA adopts rules to limit oil refineries’ emissions into neighborhoods
The EPA has adopted new rules intended to clean the air around oil refineries across the nation, including communities near six major refineries in Southern California.
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China pushes ahead with electric vehicles amid diesel scrutiny
China will forge ahead promoting electric vehicles as part of its energy policy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, as regulators increase scrutiny of diesels following Volkswagen AG’s admission to cheating emissions rules.
Shell halts Alaska offshore exploration after failing to find enough oil
Royal Dutch Shell Plc will halt exploration in the U.S. Arctic after $7 billion of spending ended with a well off Alaska that failed to find any meaningful quantities of oil or natural gas.
Limited progress seen even as more nations step up on climate
The pledges that countries are making to battle climate change would still allow the world to heat up by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit, a new analysis shows, a level that scientists say is likely to produce catastrophes ranging from food shortages to widespread extinctions of plant and animal life.
195 cities celebrate Drive Electric Week
Earlier this month the nation celebrated National Drive Electric Week, with events in 195 cities. Read more →
New bid to cut natural gas pollution falls short
In the race to head off the most dangerous impacts of climate change, a solution to the methane emissions problem is lagging.
California regulators restore emissions-cutting fuel rule
California regulators on Friday restored ambitious rules to cut transportation fuel emissions 10 percent within 5 years.
Pope Francis pushes world leaders at U.N. to protect environment
“We human beings are part of the environment,” Francis said. “We live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect. … Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity.”
EPA to change diesel tests to thwart VW-like cheating
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans sweeping changes to the way it tests for diesel emissions after getting duped by clandestine software in Volkswagen cars for seven years.
The connection between cleaner air and longer lives
As a fight brews over President Obama’s new use of the Clean Air Act to address global warming, it’s worth re-examining the vast difference the law has already made in the quality of the air we breathe, and in the length of our lives.
