The Brandon Shores power plant in Maryland spent hundreds of millions to install pollution-control systems. A new Trump administration proposal would let some older coal plants skip such upgrades. Want Continue Reading
China’s decision to regulate maritime fuels could have a significant impact on international efforts to lower emissions from shipping, analysis finds. Following its so-called Blue Sky initiative, the Chinese Ministry Continue Reading
Trump administration officials are preparing to issue a proposal within days to freeze fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks for six years and challenge the right of California and Continue Reading
Within the next few decades, Big Meat and Big Dairy could surpass Big Oil as the world’s biggest climate polluters, a new study by non-profit GRAIN and the Institute for Continue Reading
For miners seeking to cater to the changing appetite of China, the world’s biggest iron ore importer, all eyes are on Tangshan, the country’s biggest steel-making city and the drastic Continue Reading
Oil and gas drillers in Colorado will tweak their drilling and completion schedules for the summer as a way of supporting the state’s efforts to reduce ozone emissions, which seasonally Continue Reading
Because of the increased use of natural gas, carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. power sector were at their lowest in 30 years, a government report read. The U.S. Energy Continue Reading
Top legislator Li Zhanshu called for full and effective implementation of the Air Pollution Control Law, during an inspection tour to central China’s Henan Province from May 24 to 28. Continue Reading
From a grassy hilltop in western Maryland, a high-tech spying operation tracks the source of pollution and ozone coming into the state. State regulators use such automated air-monitoring stations to Continue Reading
The new regulations would also challenge California’s authority to set its own emissions marks, which it seeks to keep at the tougher, Obama-era standards. The Trump administration has drafted a Continue Reading
Resurgent state sector risks worsening trade tension with U.S. State controls 67% of steel capacity, 80% of coal: analyst President Xi Jinping’s big push to curb pollution and excess capacity Continue Reading
High atop the ski lift at Zar Mountain in southern Poland, the villages below disappear. At first, they seem obscured by morning fog. But the yellow haze does not lift. Continue Reading
China’s city of Handan has ordered steel mills to cut production by around 25 percent as part of new measures to curb pollution from April to mid-November, according to a Continue Reading
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce in the coming days that it will be rolling back the fuel economy targets for cars and SUVs—a move that Continue Reading
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will sign a final determination by Sunday which will begin a months-long effort to weaken US fuel economy standards and likely set off Continue Reading
The Obama-era rules to be reconsidered were designed to address global warming and put the United States at the forefront of global car-efficiency regulation. The Trump administration is expected to Continue Reading
In a first for the bloc, the European Parliament made a provisional agreement to monitor emissions and fuel consumption from heavy-duty vehicles. The European body said it would work on Continue Reading
Diesel-powered passenger vehicle sales are declining in Europe as governments put more pressure on automakers to cut production and sales in the post-Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating scandal landscape. Diesel passenger Continue Reading
Vessel operators who plan to run ships on scrubbers to meet the International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur cap rule should lock in long term contracts now with bunker suppliers, industry Continue Reading
The owners of 60,000 cargo ships are bracing for tighter emissions rules that are forcing them to make a multibillion-dollar choice: Start buying cleaner-burning fuel or invest in a device Continue Reading
The accelerating demise of diesel, long used by carmakers to boost fuel-efficiency, is undermining their plans to meet looming European Union CO2 goals, and avoid big annual fines. The I.D. Continue Reading
The evidence is now overwhelming that natural gas is not part of the climate solution , it is part of the problem. A new study finds that the methane escaping Continue Reading
Industry tends to underestimate need to cut methane: institute CCS is probably needed to meet Paris climate limits: Cicero The natural gas industry may be one of its own worst Continue Reading
A study conducted before and after the 2004 closure of a coal-burning power plant in Tongliang, China, found that children born before the closure had shorter telomeres than those conceived Continue Reading
One year ago, China’s capital city was in the grip of suffocating and potentially fatal smog that made life a misery and breathing downright dangerous. This month, the air in Continue Reading
Air pollution trapped along the Wasatch Front by winter inversions is estimated to send more than 200 people to the emergency room with pneumonia each year, according to a study Continue Reading
Senior official says doubling GDP by 2020 not a ‘huge barrier’ Leaders focus on ‘critical battles’ against debt, pollution China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its Continue Reading
A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health links short-term exposures to fine particulate air pollution and ozone—even at levels well below current national safety standards—to higher Continue Reading
The American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday launched a voluntary program to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas operations, a move environmentalists said was not strong Continue Reading
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Coal executive Robert Murray ambled through the packed hearing room inside the gold-domed capital complex here, past reporters and photographers, past environmental activists and energy lobbyists, past more than two Continue Reading
A new report suggests that African Americans face disproportionate health risks than other races due to pollution from oil and gas. The health risks for African Americans caused by environmental Continue Reading
A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, on Monday, as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is Continue Reading
A toxic cloud has descended on India’s capital, delaying flights and trains, causing coughs, headaches and even highway pileups, and prompting Indian officials on Wednesday to take the unprecedented step Continue Reading
The toxic haze blanketing New Delhi was so severe on Tuesday that politicians announced plans to close schools, flights were delayed and the chief minister of Delhi state said the Continue Reading
In a recent interview with Fox News, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt claimed: “We are leading the nation — excuse me — the world with respect to our CO2 Continue Reading
Panic has gripped the Indian capital, Delhi, as residents woke up to a blanket of thick grey smog on Tuesday. Visibility is poor as pollution levels reached 30 times the Continue Reading
The global toll of chronic kidney disease (CKD) attributable to PM 2.5 pollution is significant, according to an analysis presented at ASN (American Society of Nephrology) Kidney Week. Benjamin Bowe, Continue Reading
Invisible disaster: Infrared images from the Environmental Defense Fund show a huge plume spewing from the ground. Two years ago today, the largest U.S. methane leak was discovered. The leak Continue Reading
« ICCT study finds GHGs from shipping on the rise | Main | Lancet Commission report estimates pollution responsible for 9 million premature deaths globally in 2015; 16% of deaths Continue Reading
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today, according to the newly released report detailing the adverse effects of pollution on global health Continue Reading
More than 9m people are killed annually by pollution, equivalent to one in six of all deaths across the world, according to a new study. A two-year project carried out Continue Reading
Planting more forests and managing land use better could be the biggest natural climate solution, because nature could deliver more than 30 percent of the emissions reduction needed to curb Continue Reading
The world’s top trading houses, among the most nimble entities in oil, say even they aren’t sure how to stay a step ahead of a coming cut in shipping fuel Continue Reading
A wave of environmental inspections in China has led to the closure of tens of thousands of businesses producing commodities from industrial chemicals to cement and rubber, pushing up prices Continue Reading
When the Mississippi Public Service Commission earlier this year asked Southern Co. to pull the plug on its plan to turn the Kemper power plant into a clean-coal, carbon-capturing facility, Continue Reading
FILE PHOTO: The flooded plant of French chemical maker Arkema SA, which produces organic peroxides, is seen after fires were reported at the facilty after Tropical Storm Harvey passed in Continue Reading
The old saying goes, “ The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. And so it goes for the myriad of new regulations, taxes and restrictions forced upon the Continue Reading
The Trump administration will postpone industry compliance with an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions from oil and gas wells on federal lands. An effort by congressional Republicans to repeal the Continue Reading
More than a dozen state attorneys general wrote to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency vowing a legal fight to block regulators from easing vehicle-emissions standards, the latest broadside Continue Reading
