Officials from California, New York and other states urged the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to allow California to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards, which would reverse a Continue Reading
As the world’s oil and gas giants face increasing pressure to reduce their fossil fuel emissions, small, privately held drilling companies are becoming the country’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, Continue Reading
The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog farm next to her mother’s Duplin County, N.C., home carried hazardous gases: methane, Continue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will propose a rule curbing the use of a potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration and air conditioning, the Biden administration’s first major step Continue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Monday to sharply reduce the use and production of powerful greenhouse gases central to refrigeration and air-conditioning, part of the Biden administration’s larger strategy Continue Reading
The polar blast in Texas earlier this year revealed a dirty secret in the most prolific U.S. oil field: Two under-the-radar natural gas plants that are a persistent source of Continue Reading
Brittany Liscord was at her job at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine in 2018 when, out of nowhere, she received a warning from a colleague. It was about Continue Reading
Methane pollution from the largest oilfield in the US has soared back to pre-pandemic levels as a recovery in drilling undermines industry pledges to crack down on emissions of the Continue Reading
The city of Los Angeles has been collecting data on its carbon pollution footprint for over a decade as a part of its efforts to fight global climate change. In Continue Reading
More than 10 million people die each year from air pollution, according to a new study — far more than the estimated 2.6 million people who have died from Covid-19 since it was Continue Reading
The largest U.S. oil refiners released tons of air pollutants into the skies over Texas this week, according to figures provided to the state, as one environmental crisis triggered another. Continue Reading
The EU should bring its external gas suppliers to the table for dialog over how best to manage methane emissions, rather than look to impose any kind of penalty on Continue Reading
Some of the climate impacts of a grocery store trip are obvious, like the fuel it takes to get there and the electricity that keeps its lights glowing, conveyor belts Continue Reading
Pollution from fossil fuels causes one in five premature deaths globally, suggesting the health impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas may be far higher than previously thought, according Continue Reading
About three-quarters of fossil-fuel CO₂ pollution comes from cities. At least 48 U.S. cities are under-counting their carbon dioxide pollution by nearly 20%, according to a new study that compares Continue Reading
German auto giant Volkswagen AG VOW -0.06% is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that it says opens up car makers to a flood of emissions regulations from local governments that could Continue Reading
Emissions of planet-warming methane fell last year as oil and gas production declined, but they were still equivalent to the European Union’s total carbon dioxide emissions. Oil and gas operations emitted Continue Reading
All of the EU’s member states but two have failed to show how they will slash air pollution to comply with the emissions limits set out in the EU’s National Continue Reading
The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from Continue Reading
Most Europeans living in cities are still breathing air that is dangerous to their health, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA) in a new report ; governments are not Continue Reading
Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste NESTE.HE said on Wednesday it had signed an agreement with Shell Aviation to significantly increase the supply and availability of sustainable aviation fuel. Continue Reading
Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance—it’s found in roads, on roofs and in driveways—but its chemical emissions rarely figure into urban air quality management plans. A new study now finds that Continue Reading
U.S. regulators are investigating whether a massive methane release over Florida they say likely occurred during maintenance on a natural gas compressor station this spring violated the nation’s Clean Air Continue Reading
The Trump administration is expected in the coming days to lift Obama-era controls on the release of methane, a powerful climate-warming gas that is emitted from leaks and flares in Continue Reading
It was 12 miles wide, invisible to the naked eye and traveled across six counties to Florida’s largest city. And it’s still unclear who — or what — was responsible. The Continue Reading
Nestled in a valley in central Chile, near lakes and snowcapped mountains, sits one of the world’s most polluted cities. Every winter, sleepy Temuco plunges to the bottom of global air Continue Reading
A new study finds that automated pollution monitors in China led to more accurate readings and that citizens used this information to protect themselves better against the harms of air Continue Reading
During the 2018 Camp Fire, which lasted 17 days and killed 85 people, residents of nearby Northern California communities breathed in enough smoke to equal half a pack of cigarettes. Continue Reading
Air pollution kills an estimated 7 million people every year. Tiny soot and dust particles found in city air and biomass-fueled kitchens are the main culprits. Scientists call it PM2.5, meaning particulate matter Continue Reading
European Union carbon dioxide emissions this year are set to fall to a level not seen since the late 1950s. The fallout from the coronavirus that saw industry shut down, businesses Continue Reading
For once in California’s fight against climate change, lower greenhouse gas emissions aren’t cause for celebration. The recent drop in pollution as many factories sit idle is temporary, but it Continue Reading
Cars, power plants, and some buildings are subject to fuel and energy efficiency standards in the United States. Believe it or not, up until now, the nation’s aviation industry has Continue Reading
An early study from Harvard University linking dirty air to the worst coronavirus outcomes has quickly become a political football in Washington. Presidential candidates, agency regulators, oil lobbyists and members of Congress Continue Reading
The International Energy Agency expects carbon dioxide emissions to decline by 8 percent this year due to the devastation the coronavirus wreaked on energy demand. The agency said in the Continue Reading
Methane emissions from the Permian basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, one of the largest oil-producing regions in the world, are more than two times higher than federal Continue Reading
The travel restrictions and economic unraveling triggered by the coronavirus have led to an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions worldwide. That may feel like a rare bit of silver lining—and Continue Reading
Despite the objections of public health advocates and even the U.S. electric industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency April 16 released a final rule rescinding the legal basis for the Continue Reading
By taking advantage of a “natural experiment” brought on by the closure of one coal-fired power plant and the addition of new pollution controls at others in the area, health Continue Reading
Airborne methane levels rose markedly last year, according to a preliminary estimate published today by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The results show a dramatic leap in concentration of the second most-powerful Continue Reading
People continuously exposed to air pollution are at increased risk of dementia, especially if they also suffer from cardiovascular diseases, according to a study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the Continue Reading
Air pollution in some of Europe’s major cities has dropped dramatically since governments ordered citizens to stay home to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Readings from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P Continue Reading
A chemical plant owned by Houston-based Ascend Performance Materials emitted 33,046 metric tons of nitrous oxide in 2018. That’s equal to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 2.1 million automobiles. Continue Reading
Indians breathed easier on Monday as lockdowns ordered to combat the spread of the coronavirus in India’s megacities kept cars off the road and closed factories, improving air quality and Continue Reading
A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from Continue Reading
More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report Continue Reading
Cleaning up dirty air might sometimes make things worse Imaginechina Limited/Alamy Cities tackling one major air pollutant risk inadvertently making things worse by fuelling the growth of another, potentially more Continue Reading
Before it exploded last June, Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) — the largest crude oil refinery on the East Coast — was processing 335,000 barrels of oil each day. It was Continue Reading
Ten U.S. oil refineries, including six in Texas, released the cancer-causing chemical benzene in concentrations that exceeded federal limits last year, according to government data published by the green group Continue Reading
Greenhouse gas emissions from EU power plants declined more sharply in 2019 than in any year since at least 1990, German think-tank Agora Energiewende said Wednesday. Receive daily email alerts, Continue Reading
Cleaning up dirty air might sometimes make things worse Imaginechina Limited/Alamy Cities tackling one major air pollutant risk inadvertently making things worse by fuelling the growth of another, potentially more Continue Reading
