When it comes to clean cars, is the California way the right approach?
California’s strict zero-emissions vehicle strategy may not be the most consumer-friendly and egalitarian way to tackle the problem.
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‘I’d like to drive a hybrid car’ Hyundai commercial debunks stereotypes
Hybrid cars should have much higher sales in the U.S. They’re a compromise between the conscious knowledge that fossil fuel engines hurt the environment and the subconscious stress produced by range anxiety. So, why aren’t more people buying hybrid cars?
Oil lobby pushes for offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
Bolstered by last week’s offshore drilling order from President Trump, the American Petroleum Institute (API) said Monday it wants regulators to consider allowing drilling in new tracts of the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
Maui farm prepares to harvest first sunflower biofuel crop
Pacific Biodiesel Technologies is cultivating a 14-acre sunflower field as part of an initial 115-acre crop project site dedicated to growing combine-harvested oil crops on land previously used for sugar cane production.
Rising seas claiming California’s coast faster than scientists imagined
A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores — climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beachfront and overwhelming low-lying cities.
As the climate changes, risks to human health will accelerate, White House warns
The study, more than 300 pages long and several years in the making, focuses on what the White House has described as one of the gravest threats to the nation: major health problems associated with climate change.
California attorney general vows to fight any attempt to allow more oil drilling off coast of state
California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Friday he is prepared to fight any attempt to expand oil drilling off the California coast despite an order signed by President Trump calling for a study of new oil and natural gas exploration.
The road to fuel choice — government’s role
The road to fuel choice leads through the halls of power in Washington, D.C., and state capitol domes. Breaking the oil monopoly will require a combination of federal and state policies; widely available fuels and the cars to run them; and, finally, an educated and willing consumer base. Read more →
Your city could be exporting deadly air pollution — here’s why
Air pollution is often seen as a local problem requiring local and regional solutions. Karachi, London, Lagos, Mexico City and Paris are just a few of the world’s cities grappling with poor air quality.
Honda will do nearly anything to get you in a hydrogen car
It’s a terrific car packed with perks. The problem is the hydrogen—and it has been for a long time.
