Power supply to about 150,000 California homes and businesses is expected to be shut off on Wednesday, in the latest precautionary outage planned by utility giant PG&E against wildfire risks Continue Reading
Nearly a quarter of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions come from fossil fuels developed on federal lands, according to a government report. Credit: Bureau of Land Management The Trump administration’s Continue Reading
Etienne Laurent/EPA, via Shutterstock The health effects of climate change will be unevenly distributed and children will be among those especially harmed, according to a new report from the medical Continue Reading
People in Sydney woke up to a city shrouded in smoke on Tuesday, as scores of bushfires rage across the region. Strong winds overnight brought smoke from fires inland, pushing Continue Reading
California state agencies will stop buying gas-powered vehicles from a number of carmakers after the latter joined the White House in their opposition to the state’s new, stricter emissions rules. Continue Reading
Greater exposure to ambient ultrafine particles (UFPs, <0.1 µm) produced by fuel burning could increase people’s chances of getting brain cancer according to a new study by a team of Continue Reading
The Veneto regional council that decides policies for Venice was struck by a flood just minutes after the majority of the council members rejected a plan for tackling climate change Continue Reading
PG&E isn’t broke. It is following the survival strategy used by other troubled companies to put a lid on damage claims. For victims, that amounts to a loss of negotiating Continue Reading
A top Federal Reserve policymaker on Friday signaled the U.S. central bank may join its international peers in incorporating climate change risk into its assessments of financial stability, and may Continue Reading
A woman was found dead in flood water on Friday after severe storms brought a month’s rainfall in less than 24 hours to parts of central and northern England. Police Continue Reading
“If all the ships on Earth were a single country, that country would be the sixth-largest polluter in the world.” This shocking fact comes from a recent NPR report by Continue Reading
Frustrated with wildfires and intentional blackouts caused by Pacific Gas & Electric, more than two dozen California mayors and county leaders are calling for a customer-owned power company to replace Continue Reading
Strong, dry winds play a key role in wildfires blazing out of control every fall in the state, including last week’s 77,758-acre Kincade Fire , which destroyed 374 homes and Continue Reading
Mr. Stiroh’s comments came from the text of remarks prepared for delivery at the GARP Global Risk Forum in New York on Thursday. He spoke as the central bank has Continue Reading
Virginia voters gave Democrats a leadership trifecta on Nov. 5, 2019, flipping both chambers of the legislature from Republican to Democrat in a state led by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam. Continue Reading
Just a couple of months after it announced it will move ahead with a plan for emission reduction, Russia has abandoned the plan, under pressure from businesses that face steep Continue Reading
US plans to tackle emissions have been deemed “insufficient” Paul Souders/Getty Almost three quarters of the climate pledges countries have put forward for the Paris agreement fall short of the Continue Reading
Global Warning More than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change — and it’s extremely gloomy. “The climate crisis has arrived and is Continue Reading
A new report by 11,258 scientists in 153 countries from a broad range of disciplines warns that the planet “clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency,” and provides six broad Continue Reading
Air pollution in New Delhi hit extreme levels over the weekend and into Monday. India’s government has declared a public health emergency, shut down schools and halted construction projects. NEW Continue Reading
Take your pick: Blackouts or wildfires. That’s the grim choice many in California are fearing as the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, says the effort to proactively shut Continue Reading
Italy will next year become the world’s first country to make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study climate change and sustainable development, Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said. Italy’s Education Minister Continue Reading
A goat herder walks past a wind farm in Rewalkawadi, India. The country has made great progress in switching to renewables © Bloomberg In his remarks to the annual conference Continue Reading
A thick, gray pall of smog settled over India’s capital in recent days, prompting the government to ban millions of private vehicles from the streets on Monday, a day after Continue Reading
The United States can tackle threats to the climate through technological advances and fossil fuels will remain a priority for the U.S. government and business, the assistant secretary for Fossil Continue Reading
The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations on Monday that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, leaving global climate diplomats to plot Continue Reading
You smell it, or think you do. Like a bonfire on a beach. Then you see it in your headlights. Ash. Or maybe insects? The signs are coy at first, Continue Reading
For a third straight year, California’s fire season is ramping up when it should be winding down. After an onslaught of wind storms and flurry of blazes, large swaths of Continue Reading
The carbon bubble “continues to inflate,” according to a new report from Carbon Tracker. And yet no major oil company has aligned its operations with the goals set out in Continue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday plans to relax rules that govern how power plants store waste from burning coal and release water containing toxic metals into nearby waterways, according Continue Reading
There were two categories of people most affected by the fires in California: those who evacuated because the fires threatened them directly and those who stayed home under blackout conditions. Continue Reading
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been handing out masks to school students Five million masks are being distributed at schools in India’s capital, Delhi, after pollution made the air Continue Reading
As California is living through the most dangerous time of the year for wildfires due to dry and windy conditions, experts say a trio of factors make America’s most populous Continue Reading
The wildfire in California may wipe out $2 trillion of housing value in four counties, Redfin says. The wildfire in California that has destroyed 198,000 acres of land and more Continue Reading
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening a state takeover of PG&E Corp. unless the company exits bankruptcy and dramatically improves the safety of its electric grid before the next wildfire Continue Reading
Spain will host U.N. climate change talks in December after Chile withdrew, the United Nations said on Friday, a last-minute switch which raises big logistical challenges and has left activist Continue Reading
Long-term residential exposure to locally emitted black carbon (BC) from traffic exhaust increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet Continue Reading
HERE’S ANOTHER piece of evidence that climate change might be worse than scientists previously predicted. The seas are rising, and will continue to rise, because hotter temperatures melt land-based ice Continue Reading
Rex Tillerson was Exxon’s CEO from 2006 until his retirement shortly before becoming U.S. secretary of state in the Trump administration in 2017. President Donald Trump fired him a year Continue Reading
The Trump administration is expected to roll back an Obama-era regulation meant to limit the leaching of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies from the ash of coal-fired Continue Reading
It’s rare for a current or former leader of one of the world’s largest energy producers to testify under oath about climate change. That’s why a New York courtroom was Continue Reading
The Trump administration is backing away from a plan to freeze tailpipe-emissions targets for new vehicles through 2025, say people familiar with the process. The administration is now considering requiring Continue Reading
Automakers such as Toyota and Fiat Chrysler said they agreed that setting fuel economy standards is the purview of the federal government, not of the state. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/AP) The Continue Reading
Madrid has offered to hold the next United Nations climate talks, the leaders of Spain and Chile announced on Thursday. The announcement came a day after Chile said it could Continue Reading
Former Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson on Wednesday denied misleading investors about how the oil major measured potential costs of climate change, as he testified in a Continue Reading
A man wades along a flooded street as Hurricane Irma hits the Miami area Sept. 10, 2017. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Rising seas will be much worse and more expensive Continue Reading
Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities. The Continue Reading
Just as California’s fire weather appeared to be abating somewhat, newly issued forecasts show that for tens of millions, the worst may be yet to come. On Tuesday and Tuesday Continue Reading
The plan to build a petrochemical plant near the Iranian city of Firouzabad had everything usually needed to get a project off the ground: approval from the nation’s top authority, Continue Reading
This past weekend, Pacific Gas & Electric had to resume electricity blackouts to 930,000 customers affecting upwards of three million people around San Francisco. Meanwhile, two major wildfires, one of Continue Reading
