A Harvard economist known globally for his work on climate change policy sat in the Sacramento office of the oil industry’s lobbying firm recently, making the case that California is fighting global warming the wrong way.
Our planet’s preliminary February temperature data are in, and it’s now abundantly clear: Global warming is going into overdrive.
Ritzy Beverly Hills’s famous oil well, which sits on the grounds of their high school and is bedecked in flowery art, has long been scheduled to stop extracting oil at the end of this year, with cleanup of the site supposed to begin as soon as possible, lasting about three months. But there are a couple kinks in the plan.
Southern California’s air quality board is moving to replace its top executive a month after Republicans gained a majority on the panel with new appointees who have vowed to make pollution regulations less burdensome for businesses.
New data this week showing how little progress the United States has made in cutting greenhouse gas emissions since President Obama took office is the latest evidence to undercut the pledges the United States made in negotiating the Paris climate treaty.
Racin’ is a lot of things (maybe even rubbin’ … Robert Duvall and Tom Cruise didn’t exactly settle the matter in “Days of Thunder”). NASCAR fans usually don’t think “reducin’ emissions” as part of the equation of their favorite sport. But they should.
According to the latest report from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the Luckenbach’s fuel coated nine birds in oil in December, killing four of them.
A group of scientists says it has now reconstructed the history of the planet’s sea levels arcing back over some 3,000 years — leading it to conclude that the rate of increase experienced in the 20th century was “extremely likely” to have been faster than during nearly the entire period.
Working-class, minority neighborhoods in Wilmington and South Los Angeles have been plagued for years by foul odors, noise and dirt from oil operations that are practically in their backyards. But residents and activists argue that officials’ response to those problems has been slow and woefully inadequate.
I’m here to say that I have to eat my words about corn ethanol being worse than gasoline.
