Air pollution brings down the stock market
How could a few more dirty particles in the air cause such big dips in market returns?
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A single autonomous car has a huge impact on alleviating traffic
Even intelligent cruise control systems could be used to clear up congestion.
Dakota pipeline is ready for oil, without spill response plan for Standing Rock
Without a complete emergency plan or equipment, a spill at the Missouri River crossing could cause tremendous damage to the environment and the tribe’s water.
In victory for environmentalists, Senate keeps an Obama-era climate change rule
In a surprising victory for President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, the Senate on Wednesday voted to uphold an Obama-era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.
‘We all knew this was coming’: Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air
Even as the Trump administration weighs withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, a new scientific paper has documented growing fluxes of greenhouse gases streaming into the air from the Alaskan tundra, a long-feared occurrence that could worsen climate change.
Should we call climate-change deniers ‘dismissives’ instead?
NPR’s Rachel Martin had a fascinating interview on Tuesday with Katharine Hayhoe, a renowned climate scientist and evangelical Christian, in which they discussed the toxic nature of the world “climate denier” — a word that environmental reporters use all the time.
Trump will punt decision on the Paris climate agreement until after the G-7, Spicer says
President Trump will now wait until after the G-7 meeting in late May before making a decision about whether to keep the U.S. in the Paris climate agreement, his press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
CARB invests heavily in new generation of clean vehicles for California roads
The California Air Resource Board is making moves to accelerate reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by putting more clean vehicles on roads and highways in its home state.
Inside VW’s campaign of trickery
Volkswagen was a little more than a month away from the biggest crisis in its history when Oliver Schmidt, a high-ranking engineer for the carmaker who dealt with regulators in the United States, wrote a reassuring email to his superiors.
E.P.A. dismisses members of major scientific review board
The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency’s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research.
