Exxon Mobil Corp’s latest shift on climate includes a $1 million donation to a political action committee’s lobbying campaign to promote a U.S. tax on carbon-gas emissions, a central factor Continue Reading
The European Council agreed on setting a target of a 35% average reduction in CO 2 emissions form new cars by 2030. This position is a basis on which to Continue Reading
A new U.N. report suggests a $240 per gallon gas tax equivalent is needed to fight global warming. The U.N. says a carbon tax would need to be as high Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — A day after the United Nations issued its most urgent call to arms yet for the world to confront the threat of climate change, President Trump boarded Air Continue Reading
Firefighters monitor a backfire near Ladoga, Calif., in August. (Noah Berger/AP) Here is how to interpret the alarming new United Nations-sponsored report on global warming : We are living in Continue Reading
Exxon sees a carbon tax as an alternative to patchwork regulations, putting one cost on all carbon emitters nationwide, eliminating regulatory uncertainty hovering over Exxon’s business in states that might Continue Reading
The EU will miss its 2030 aviation emissions target by almost 100m tonnes if it adopts a new industry-backed standard being rolled out next year, a transport campaigning group has Continue Reading
First it was fierce storms in northern Europe. Since then there have been wildfires in California, a drought in Australia and more storms, this time in the US and Asia. Continue Reading
The world is on track to overshoot the targets of the Paris climate agreement and warm by 3C by the end of the century, a level that would disrupt life Continue Reading
A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says Continue Reading
The Earth has already warmed 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 19th century. Now, a major new United Nations report has looked at the consequences of jumping to Continue Reading
The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take “unprecedented” actions to cut their carbon Continue Reading
A penguin stands on an iceberg in Yankee Harbour, Antarctica, in February. (Reuters) The Oct. 8 release of a U.N. special report on limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius Continue Reading
On Thursday, the state of California ramped up its challenge to new federal emissions standards pushed by the Trump Administration. A state official said that California is considering a formal Continue Reading
A dry summer has shrunk the British potato crop and raised a daunting prospect for Britons: a shortage of chips. Fish and chip shops say they will have to reduce Continue Reading
Despite the Trump administration’s own prediction that by the end of this century, the world could warm “a disastrous” 7°F, or about 4°C, above pre-industrial levels, the president has decided Continue Reading
In the cloud of toxic dust thrown up by the Kavanaugh hearings last week, two new Trump initiatives slipped by with less notice than they deserve. Both are ugly, stupid Continue Reading
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved a proposal which would set a higher target for reducing EU fleet-wide emissions for new cars by 2030 of 40% (compared to the Continue Reading
The British firm had been active in Canada since 1835. Its actuaries long believed wildfire risk to homes in the area was almost nonexistent, it says. Yet flames on the Continue Reading
The International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur limit rule for marine fuels is set to usher in a multi-fuel future where fuel quality will be paramount and compliance to the rule Continue Reading
Despite the Trump administration’s own prediction that by the end of this century, the world could warm “a disastrous” 7°F, or about 4°C, above pre-industrial levels, the president has decided Continue Reading
A revolutionary groundwater quality study provides new evidence that ‘fracking’ operations are safe to nearby water sources. This piece presents the opinions of the author. It does not necessarily reflect Continue Reading
At Hurricane Florence’s peak of intensity on September 10, its winds roared to 130 mph . But as the Category 4 storm approached the Carolinas, those gusts weakened. When it Continue Reading
Wading through the latest on climate change is an emotional rollercoaster. You will be hit with a dizzying array of inspiring examples of innovation and activism, you’ll be incensed by Continue Reading
Overview U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions decreased 0.9% in 2017 Energy-related CO2 emissions decreased by 47 million metric tons (MMmt), from 5,189 MMmt in 2016 to 5,142 MMmt in 2017. Continue Reading
Top officials from California, Maryland and Connecticut vowed Friday to take whatever legal action necessary to preserve their tougher tailpipe rules if the Trump administration rolls back federal fuel economy Continue Reading
Floodwaters on Friday breached a dam that contains a man-made lake connected to a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina, possibly causing coal ash to flow into the nearby Continue Reading
A flotilla of tabular icebergs adrift in the Southern Ocean, near the outlet of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica. (Christina Riesselman) Temperatures not much warmer than the planet is Continue Reading
ExxonMobil and Chevron, the two largest US energy groups, have joined the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, a group of companies supporting curbs on greenhouse gas emissions. The move is Continue Reading
Nuclear power could contribute to achieving the Paris Agreement targets on climate change, but it would need help of its own to do that, a new report from the International Continue Reading
The Trump administration finalized a rollback of Obama-era limits on methane that is leaked, vented or flared from oil and gas wells on federal lands, part of a one-two punch Continue Reading
As President Donald Trump weakens one environmental rule after another, the deep green state of California has found a way to fight back: with a rocket. “With science still under Continue Reading
Super Typhoon Mangkhut hit port operations and energy infrastructure in the region over the weekend. Operations at some ports are likely to remain suspended as the typhoon continues to wreak Continue Reading
Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday with 100 miles-per-hour wind gusts, drenching rains and 11-foot surges of seawater that inundated the first urban area of Asia to Continue Reading
For about a decade, Texas has considered the idea of erecting a coastal barrier to protect against the impacts of hurricanes. Texas A&M researchers concluded that a direct hit to Continue Reading
Water shortages at Lake Mead have drawn all the attention in recent years. Now water rationing has reached far into the Colorado River’s snowy headwaters, prompting concern about the long-term Continue Reading
United Airlines has become the first US airline to publicly commit to reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050, relative to 2005. The pledge represents the equivalent Continue Reading
If Europe’s eight largest oil companies want to meet the climate and carbon-reducing goals they have set, their spending on new, low-carbon energies must double by 2020, and then double Continue Reading
The bill that Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB 100, requires the state to reach 100 percent clean electricity in less than 30 years, with interim goals along the Continue Reading
Jacobin recently published an article calling for a national and worldwide expansion of air-conditioning usage. In it the writer, Leigh Phillips, used the suffering of economically and ecologically stressed people Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed weakening requirements for testing and repairing methane leaks in drilling operations, among other measures, in a step toward rolling back an Obama-era policy to Continue Reading
The UN secretary-general has sounded the alarm on climate change, warning that there could be a $2tn loss in productivity in the global economy by 2030 due to the effects Continue Reading
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, called climate change “the defining issue of our time.” Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our Continue Reading
The number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years, after years of decline, a UN report suggests. According to the analysis, 821 million people globally Continue Reading
The proposed changes, among other measures, would give drillers a year to do leak inspections instead of just six months, and 60 days to make repairs instead of 30, the Continue Reading
The once-powerful Florence took a hit Thursday, but its life as a major hurricane is probably not over just yet, and it has East Coast residents on the edge of Continue Reading
The world is not making nearly enough progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to achieve the goals for limiting global warming agreed at the Paris climate summit in 2015, a Continue Reading
Here’s a concept: paper water. Paper water is water the government grants certain farmers who are drawing water from a river or a watershed in, say, California. The phrase describes Continue Reading
A steel factory in Wu’an, China. Many countries can report lower carbon emissions because they are increasing imports of materials like steel or cement. Over the past decade, both the Continue Reading
In China, people breathe ozone-laden air two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe, Japan, or South Korea, according to a new international study published Continue Reading
