IN A dramatic double whammy this week, Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil, two enormous oil companies, each lost a high-profile fight against climate activists. The consequence is that two boardrooms may be forced Continue Reading
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System has seen record-high prices lately. This has prompted two kinds of response: on one side, some analysts and officials have welcomed the trend, saying Continue Reading
A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the basis of human rights could set a precedent, Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell lost a major climate lawsuit. The management of Chevron suffered defeat by shareholders who voted for setting an absolute reduction target for greenhouse gases. And, perhaps in Continue Reading
Fresh from striking a hammer blow in the boardrooms of the world’s biggest oil companies, the climate movement has a clear message: the energy transition is happening and there’s no Continue Reading
Rating agency Moody’s said on Friday that the credit risk of major oil producers has increased with recent events including Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) losing a Dutch climate lawsuit this Continue Reading
The environmental group which scored a big win against Shell in court on Wednesday is already helping fellow organizations to sue other Big Oil companies over their contribution to climate Continue Reading
Big Oil has suffered a climate backlash after a court-ordered Royal Dutch Shell to aggressively slash carbon emissions and ExxonMobil shareholders backed an activist investor that said the supermajor faced Continue Reading
Fresh from striking a hammer blow in the boardrooms of the world’s biggest oil companies, the climate movement has a clear message: the energy transition is happening and there’s no Continue Reading
Reuters It’s becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years. A major study says by 2025 there’s a 40% Continue Reading
Extreme heat this summer could create energy shortfalls in California, Texas, New England and the U.S. West and Central regions, the organization responsible for North American electric reliability warned on Continue Reading
Ali Allawi, Iraq’s finance minister, found himself in a quandary last year as the spread of coronavirus cut demand for oil and prices tumbled. Allawi’s treasury, which receives more than Continue Reading
The global push for clean power generation and increased electrification in transportation is creating a new world order in energy where new winners and losers may emerge. If the world Continue Reading
A meeting of European Union leaders on Tuesday could end without a declaration on how to meet the bloc’s new goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions due to differences over Continue Reading
Businesses are buying more renewable power, and oil majors want a piece of the action.European oil companies including BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC are building new wind and solar projects and striking deals Continue Reading
The number of new people forced to move within their own countries by climate disasters rose to the highest in at least a decade in 2020, more than three times Continue Reading
President Biden announced Monday that he was doubling the amount of money the U.S. government will spend helping communities get set for extreme weather events, proclaiming the need for full readiness Continue Reading
European carbon prices are running at record highs these days, and they have more room to rise, according to some analysts and traders. On the face of it, this is Continue Reading
The red-and-white flue stacks of the James M. Barry Electric Generating Station tower over the Mobile River, belching steam into the Alabama sky. The sprawling complex of coal and natural Continue Reading
What is the best way to reach net zero emissions by 2050? The International Energy Agency, a Paris-based oil watchdog, has mapped out a pathway that it says is “narrow Continue Reading
Some of the world’s biggest companies and deepest-pocketed investors are lining up trillions of dollars to finance a shift away from fossil fuels. Assets in investment funds focused partly on the Continue Reading
Sitting in a pickup truck on his almond farm 100 miles north of San Francisco, Tom Butler pointed to a withered grove he has been planning to bulldoze in order Continue Reading
California’s deepening drought has worsened into a crisis, as a second dry year in a row has diminished the state’s water supply and another difficult fire season looks inevitable. Nearly Continue Reading
t’s only May, and temperatures near the Arctic Circle in northwestern Russia are approaching 90 degrees. In Moscow, temperatures have shattered records on consecutive days. It has also been unusually Continue Reading
A cloud of methane was detected by satellite over a natural gas field in Canada, identifying a hidden source of pollution from one of North America’s most prolific production basins. The Continue Reading
Federal scientists on Thursday forecast that 2021 could see in the range of 13 to 20 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes of Category Continue Reading
The National Hurricane Center on May 20 forecast a more active Atlantic hurricane season than normal as being most likely in 2021, but not as active as 2020’s record-setting storm Continue Reading
A private wild land firefighter monitors a backfire along Old Lawley Toll Road during the Glass Fire in Calistoga, California, U.S., October 2, 2020. Picture taken October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Continue Reading
An iceberg the size of the Spanish island of Majorca has broken off the coast of Antarctica, with measurements taken from satellites and planes confirming it’s now the world’s largest. Iceberg Continue Reading
Livestock, particularly cows, are a major source of methane IN A University of Colorado lab, near a furnace running at 1100°C and machines adorned with Star Trek posters, lie rows Continue Reading
ALBUQUERQUE — This year, New Mexican officials have a message for farmers who depend on irrigation water from the Rio Grande and other rivers: Unless you absolutely have to plant Continue Reading
ALBUQUERQUE — This year, New Mexican officials have a message for farmers who depend on irrigation water from the Rio Grande and other rivers: Unless you absolutely have to plant Continue Reading
Global demand for hydrogen would need to more than double from its existing level of consumption to 212 million mt by 2030 if the world is attain climate-change goals, the Continue Reading
In more than five years since the world agreed to limit warming temperatures, banks have poured more than $3.6 trillion into fossil fuel—almost three times more than total bonds and Continue Reading
People pour water over themselves at a broken water pipe during a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan on June 29, 2015. Credit: Asim Afeez/Bloomberg via Getty Images While scientists warn Continue Reading
The Supreme Court handed the city of Baltimore a preliminary setback in its bid to sue more than 20 multinational oil-and-gas companies on allegations they contributed to climate change and Continue Reading
A wildfire in Southern California grew to 1,325 acres on Sunday as roughly 1,000 Topanga Canyon residents had to be evacuated from their homes. Just like that, fire season has Continue Reading
The world needs to ditch coal in order to tackle climate change and save the planet, former UK business secretary Alok Sharma, who is now president for this year’s global Continue Reading
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo set an audacious new benchmark in her ongoing campaign to reduce car use across the French capital: a ban on most vehicle traffic crossing the city Continue Reading
The European Union is aiming to step up its efforts to cut pollution from sectors like industry and agriculture as part of its biggest economic overhaul to date. The overarching goal is Continue Reading
No drips here. San Diego’s airport has been reusing the water from air conditioner condensation since 2014. In the coastal city of Herzliya, Israel, not far from parched mountains and Continue Reading
Wildfires are bigger, and starting earlier in the year. Heat waves are more frequent. Seas are warmer, and flooding is more common. The air is getting hotter. Even ragweed pollen Continue Reading
For years, President Donald Trump and his deputies played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and delayed the release of an Environmental Protection Agency report Continue Reading
The Dalles Dam water supply forecast has reached a new season low after poor snow-building months and continued expectations of below-normal precipitation with much of the area is listed in Continue Reading
More cities than ever are implementing measures to fight climate change and mitigate the impact of extreme weather events on their communities, but there’s still a large gap between what’s 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
‘Urgent steps’ needed to cut methane emissions this decade Fossil fuel sector responsible for 35% of emissions Capturing methane adds to oil, gas sector revenues The fossil fuel sector has Continue Reading
Scientists on Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from Continue Reading
The growing risk of overlapping heat waves and power failures poses a severe threat that major American cities are not prepared for, new research suggests. Power failures have increased by Continue Reading
Germany’s conservative-led government announced more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, prodded by a constitutional court ruling and with an eye to the opposition Greens’ lead in Continue Reading
