I’ve heard some good arguments against electric vehicles (EVs): The technology is still too expensive; if the electricity you charge the car with was generated by coal it’s, worse for the environment than gasoline; they take too long to recharge. They’re all relatively logical arguments that, at least for the short term, have some merit.
U.S. military officials refer to climate change as a “threat multiplier” that takes issues like terrorism that would pose a threat to national security and exacerbates the damage they can cause.
Rapid electrification of the passenger vehicle fleet would not only substantially reduce the carbon emissions of the transportation sector, it would also serve as a huge new pool of electricity demand and storage, facilitating the growth of variable renewable energy like wind and solar.
Toyota Motor Corp. is making a huge bet with its Mirai fuel-cell sedan that hydrogen-powered vehicles — not battery-electric cars — will be the real future of clean transportation. It’s starting with very small numbers.
Imagine you’re a person who makes money ferrying passengers for a ride-sharing service like Uber or Lyft, or toting around packages for Postmates or Roadie.
Now imagine how much money you spend a month in gasoline, or how much you’ll have to spend in repairs to keep your jalopy up and running, and earning.
It’s been the Holy Grail of biofuels for decades, a will-o-the-wisp, always promising great things over the horizon. But it finally seems to have arrived. Cellulosic ethanol, capable of recycling crop wastes into fuel, may be here.
Samples of water affected by Saturday’s derailment and ethanol spill show no risk to aquatic life.
The assumption has been that climate change is an “environmental issue” and that it is the job of environmentalists to fix it. It is the job of everyone else to tell them they are Doing It Wrong, to critique their methods, communication strategies, policy choices, and activist campaigns.
The globe is set to pass a symbolic yet significant climate threshold in 2015 while careening into a new era of supercharged global warming, new data released Monday shows.
Environmental activist Bill McKibben is already moving on to his next big battle: making sure Exxon Mobil is held accountable for allegedly being aware, as early as the 1970s, of the effect its products had on climate change, while publicly keeping mum and even promoting a message of climate change denial.
