More than six years later, scientists are still investigating how much damage the Deepwater Horizon spill actually caused. Now, a new study suggests the spill may have permanently marred one of the Gulf shore’s most important ecosystems.
How much is your car contributing to climate change? A new study can tell you.
Just when the legal and legislative jousting over Exxon’s climate record seemed to be bogging down in posturing and partisanship, the powerful Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped in with pointed questions about the oil giant’s disclosures of the risks of global warming.
A Philadelphia energy company has signed a 10-year agreement to produce a mixture of biofuel and jet fuel for JetBlue Airways Corp., a deal aimed at reducing the airline’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the 2006 measure known as A.B. 32 into law, “guaranteed it wouldn’t be a choice between the economy and the environment, that we could do both, and Governor Schwarzenegger was right,” said state Sen. Fran Pavley (D), who wrote the bill.
Over a thousand archaeologists, anthropologists, curators, museum officials and academics have added their names and voices to the protest against an oil pipeline being built in North Dakota.
Sixty countries, representing just shy of 48 percent of the globe’s emissions, have now formally joined the Paris climate agreement, the most advanced global attempt in history to curb humanity’s effects on Earth’s atmosphere.
California has a history being the first across the line when it comes to protecting the environment.
“Sloshing is an issue. It increases in-train forces. It would be like having a heavy box in the back of your SUV that is not tied down. If you have to slam on the brakes, what happens? The box slides forward into the back of the seat in front of it.”
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley issued an executive order Thursday declaring a state of emergency in Alabama over concerns about fuel shortages in the wake of a gasoline pipeline spill that released about 250,000 gallons of gasoline and shut down a major pipeline connecting refineries in Houston with the rest of the country.
