Authorities have banned more than 1 million cars from the roads and offered free subway and bus rides to coax people from their vehicles as Mexico City’s first air pollution alert in 11 years stretched into a third day.
Last week, Oregon became the first US state to legislate its way free of coal for good.
Roughly a year ago, the International Energy Agency announced a wonky yet nonetheless significant development.
Sea-level rise, a problem exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions, could disrupt the lives of more than 13 million people in the United States, three times more than most current estimates, according to a study published Monday.
For the third month in a row, Earth’s global temperatures in February 2016 were the most abnormally warm on record for any month, according to an analysis released by NASA.
Declining prices and extra pipeline capacity have shrunk U.S. crude by rail shipments, according to an analysis by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In 1903, it took 63 days to travel across the country by car. Just 13 years later, people were driving that distance in five days. So, is the car, and the way we drive it, ripe for transformative change again? Or will it continue to evolve slowly, as it has for the last 130 years?
The U.S. Department of Justice has widened its probe into the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal by tapping a law to combat banking fraud, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
In simplest terms, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards are where national security meets cleaner air. Read more →
One of the central planks in President Obama’s climate plan is a rule to ratchet up fuel economy standards through 2025. New US cars and light trucks are supposed to get better and better mileage with each passing year. At least, that was the dream. But now cheap oil is messing that up.
