Dozens of U.S. cities are willing to buy $10 billion of electric cars and trucks to show skeptical automakers there’s demand for low-emission vehicles, just as President Donald Trump seeks to review pollution standards the industry opposes.
Going in reverse on fuel efficiency is a terrible deal for American drivers that will cost the economy nearly $400 billion while adding nearly three billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2050.
It marks five consecutive years of CO2 increases of at least 2 parts per million, an unprecedented rate of growth.
Norway said that electric or hybrid cars represented half of new registrations in the country so far in 2017, as Norway continues its trend towards becoming one of the most ecologically progressive countries in the world.
With about twice the range of any non-Tesla electric car, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has generated a great deal of excitement and won numerous awards over the last year.
For more than a decade, California air quality officials have warned against building homes within 500 feet of freeways.
German-automaker Volkswagen AG pleaded guilty Friday to felony criminal charges in federal court in Detroit for a 10-year conspiracy to rig hundreds of thousands of diesel cars to cheat U.S. emission standards.
At the behest of oil and gas industry lobbyists, the United States Senate may soon vote to eliminate a rule that reduces methane waste from oil and gas drilling on public lands.
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell most of its Canadian oil sands assets for $8.5 billion, the latest international oil major to withdraw from the costly projects, which are among the most carbon heavy.
The USA might not have recorded its warmest winter since data-keeping began more than 120 years ago, but it didn’t feel that way for nearly half of Americans whose states sweltered through their warmest February on record.
