U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about climate change and protecting national forests on Earth Day at Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, April 22, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden ad...
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Is There A Road To More Climate-Friendly Trucking?
Transportation is the single largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions Graph from EPA In order to seriously address climate change there will need to be major changes in the US transportation sect...
Marine Animals May Face Mass Extinction Event Within 300 Years Unless Climate Change Is Reversed, Study Finds
Topline Climate change could set up the Earth’s oceans for one of the worst mass extinction events in the planet’s history over the next 300 years, a new study published Thursday estimates, but the ri...
California subpoenas Exxon for details on role in plastic pollution
A logo of the Exxon Mobil Corp is seen at the Rio Oil and Gas Expo and Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 24, 2018. Sergio Moraes | Reuters California’s attorney general on Thursday ...
Sixteen states sue Postal Service over plan to buy gas vehicles
United States Postal Service (USPS) workers load mail into delivery trucks outside a post office in Royal Oak, Michigan, August 22, 2020. Rebecca Cook | Reuters Sixteen states on Thursday sued the U.S...
Biden blocks sales of inefficient lightbulbs, reversing Trump policy
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about climate change and protecting national forests on Earth Day at Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, April 22, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden ad...
How Oil And Gas Is Being Affected By Climate Change – Response To A Presentation In Mid-America.
A pumpjack siphons oil in the foreground of a wind farm near Sweetwater, Texas. Corbis via Getty Images Independence, Kansas, is a small conservative town in the heart of the USA. The area produced oi...
The Energy Transition Cannot Be Won By Hypocrites
On April 4, 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres introduced the latest IPCC report in a damning video message. In his words, “This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a l...
Biden reverses Trump move to open up more oil drilling in Arctic
A polar bear sow and two cubs are seen on the Beaufort Sea coast within the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Reuters The Biden administration on Monda...
Leonardo DiCaprio Backed Climate Fund Regeneration.VC Closes $45 Million To Bring Sustainability Across Omnichannel
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 22: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for a photo following a Divest-Invest … [+] new conference on September 22, 2015 in New York City. Leonardo DiCaprio joined leade...
4 Earth Day Actions Companies Can Take — And 5 Reasons Why They Should
This post was written by Elizabeth Sturcken, Managing Director at EDF+Business. No Planet B: Consumers and investors want to see real climate progress, not empty pledges. Aleksandar Georgiev Every Apr...
Dry Weather Forecast Calls For Higher Food Prices And Billions In Farm Losses
Record-breaking drought is reordering American agriculture. Third-generation San Joaquin Valley farmer Gary Beene will plant only half his 1,200 acres this year. He doesn’t have enough water for the o...
The news coming from this giant volcano is even gloomier than the new forecasts from the IMF and World Bank
Investors love looking at esoteric indicators for clues on how the economy is performing, and therefore how stocks, bonds and other assets will trade. How about looking at carbon dioxide emissions? Th...
BP deal sends Nasdaq-listed EV charging stock Tritium surging
The need for new charging infrastructure in the U.K. is likely to become increasingly pressing in the years ahead, not least because authorities want to stop the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars a...
How Net Zero Became Our Global Climate Goal And Why We Need It
The latest IPCC report is a grave warning from scientists about the health of the planet in the face … [+] of climate change. Future Publishing via Getty Images 2021 was the year net-zero commit...
Utilities Plan Huge Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills
American utilities are planning their biggest spending increases in decades to upgrade aging grids, prepare for electric vehicles and make the transition to renewable energy—moves poised to further bo...
Ukraine war sees some countries focus on food, fuel, not clean energy
Concerns related to both the energy transition and energy security have been thrown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, recent months have also seen commodity pr...
California releases proposal to ban new gas-fueled cars by 2035
Morning traffic makes its way along a freeway in Los Angeles, California, September 19, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters California’s clean-air regulators unveiled a plan this week that would ramp up ...
Climate Activists Renew Pressure On ‘Devastating’ East African Oil Pipeline
Star Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has spoken out against a major crude oil pipeline being … [+] developed in Uganda and Tanzania. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images A huge crude oi...
Japanese car giant Honda targets EV expansion, earmarks billions for R&D
With several major economies looking to cut the number of diesel and gasoline vehicles on their roads, Honda and other carmakers are attempting to develop electrification strategies that will allow th...
A New Geopolitics Of Finance And Energy Trade Emerges
A container is decorated with a map showing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which was expected to … [+] deliver Russian gas to European households, in Lubmin’s industrial park, northeaster...
Asia faces threats from climate change. Here’s what can be done
A boy searches for remaining food in polythene packets at roadside in Allahabad, India, on May 11, 2018. In 2021, over 57 million people were affected by climate disasters in Asia, the International F...
Methane emissions surged by a record amount in 2021, NOAA says
A broken oil well pipeline gauge near Depew, Oklahoma J Pat Carter/Getty Images Global emissions of methane, the second biggest contributor to human-caused climate change after carbon dioxide, surged ...
Has The Gas-Powered Vehicle Addiction Finally Reached A Tipping Point?
For anyone who depends on driving for their livelihood and otherwise, passing a gas station on the road adds to a long-running nightmare. As it stands, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in th...
Wind energy installations must quadruple to hit net-zero goals: GWEC
Onshore and offshore wind turbines photographed in Flevoland, the Netherlands. Mischa Keijser | Image Source | Getty Images The wind energy sector had its second best year in 2021 but installations wi...
Climate change could cost U.S. $2 trillion each year by 2100: OMB
Dry cracked earth is visible in an area of Lake Powell that was previously underwater on March 28, 2022 in Page, Arizona. As severe drought grips parts of the Western United States, water levels at La...
Do We Double-Down On Fossil Fuels Or Hasten The Move To Green Energy?
SIGNAL HILL, CA – MARCH 5: Pumps draw petroleum from oil wells through the night as the cost of … [+] crude oil tops $104 per barrel in its surge to new record high prices March 5, 2008 in...
Arizona farmers are slammed by water cuts in the West amid drought
Farmer Nancy Caywood stands in what once was an alfalfa field. The land is now fallow after her farm was cut off from accessing water from the San Carlos reservoir. Emma Newburger | CNBC CASA GRANDE, ...
Opinion: Why the United States is reluctant to become the Saudi Arabia of natural gas
OXFORD, England (Project Syndicate)—With images of Russian aggression and war crimes in Ukraine continuing to dominate the media in Europe and around the world, Germany has pledged to cut its imports ...