Chinese buy up bottles of fresh air from Canada
A Canadian start-up company bottling fresh air from the Rocky Mountains has seen sales to China soar because of rising pollution levels.
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Report: Atlantic drilling would offer $0 to states, not $19 billion
A new report from the Center for a Blue Economy suggests that the southern Atlantic states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia — would see little to no benefit from offshore drilling, while putting a critical piece of their economies and lifestyles at risk.
The Paris agreement is the shove the world needs
The big criticism of the landmark Paris climate deal is its lack of enforcement mechanisms. If India keeps burning coal like crazy, it won’t face fines or sanctions. Nobody is going to invade Nigeria if it fails to lower emissions. What the critics don’t understand, however, is that this is a feature, not a bug. How else would you get 195 countries to sign off on it?
Switching the world to electric vehicles will take way longer than you think
If laws were passed tomorrow to limit the number of new internal-combustion cars, it would likely take almost two decades to bring half the overall fleet in that jurisdiction to electric propulsion.
Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris
With the sudden bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 countries reached a landmark climate accord that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of climate change.
U.S. lawmakers press oil companies on what they knew about climate change
A contingent of powerful U.S. representatives are pressing the chief executives of six of the country’s largest fossil fuel companies to answer questions about when the companies first understood that burning fossil fuels drives climate change and whether they became active partners in an effort to downplay the harm that could result.
Volkswagen: Engineers couldn’t meet U.S. emissions laws
Volkswagen investigators have determined that engineers cheated U.S. emissions tests in part because they could not figure out how to meet the standards, the company said.
The Paris climate talks are going much better than expected
Round-the-clock negotiations are currently underway in Paris with perhaps the boldest goal of any international summit of world leaders in history: a comprehensive plan to transition the world economy away from fossil fuels and prevent catastrophic climate change.
The radical idea that’s gaining momentum at the Paris climate talks
Even as some experts are questioning the extent to which it’s even possible, more and more voices at the U.N. climate change conference here are standing up for at least trying to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, rather than the more commonly cited 2 degrees C.
The assault on climate science
Rep. Lamar Smith is using his committee chairmanship to go after the government’s own climate scientists, whose latest study is an inconvenience to his views.
