Bid to revoke Obama-era methane rules fails in U.S. Senate
In a blow to administration efforts to free the oil and gas industry from Obama-era environmental rules, a Senate resolution to revoke a rule to limit leaks and flaring of Continue Reading
Effort to Overturn Methane Regulation Fails in Senate
Republican efforts to quickly repeal an environmental regulation from the Obama administration failed Wednesday, the first vote to not pass in the new Congress. Three Republican senators and all 48 Continue Reading
Paris climate deal stronger without U.S., experts say
Global climate experts tell a former U.N. news agency the Paris Climate deal might be better off without the United States given the president’s stance on the issue. Photo by Continue Reading
World’s Dirtiest Fuel Seen Holding Out Even as Ships Clean Up
IMO to cut marine fuel sulfur limit 86 percent in 2020 Meeting rules may cost shippers $60 billion a year: WoodMac Even as the owners of ships carrying everything from Continue Reading
U.S. will lose jobs if it quits Paris climate deal: U.N.
FILE PHOTO: Erik Solheim speaks during an interview in Jakarta October 25, 2010. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi The United States will shoot itself in the foot if it quits the Paris climate Continue Reading
State governors call on Trump to stay in Paris climate deal
U.S. could sacrifice economic edge to China if it leaves the Paris climate agreement, state governors tell the White House. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI May 4 (UPI) — There’s Continue Reading
Trump’s Arctic Drill Plan Challenged by Environmental Groups
Environmental groups are challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to restore oil and gas leasing on more than 125 million acres in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, arguing that a warming Continue Reading
Pull out of Paris climate deal, energy group tells Trump
The U.S. president needs to pull the country out of the Paris climate agreement in order to stimulate the oil and gas sector, a trade group said. The Western Energy Continue Reading
Trump advisers to discuss whether U.S. stays in Paris climate pact: official
White House advisers and Trump administration officials will meet on Thursday to discuss whether the United States should remain in the Paris climate agreement, a White House official said on Continue Reading
Perry Says Trump Should Keep Paris Climate Deal and Renegotiate
Energy secretary says he won’t advise Trump to abandon UN deal Perry criticizes Germany for allowing emissions to rise U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the U.S. should renegotiate the Continue Reading
Converting Coal Would Help China’s Smog At Climate’s Expense
China’s conversion of coal into natural gas could prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths each year. But there’s a catch: As the country shifts its use of vast coal Continue Reading
Trump’s EPA To Reconsider Oil And Gas Emissions Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider a rule on greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations and delay its compliance date, the agency said on Wednesday in the Continue Reading
EPA moves to undo tougher pollution limits on coal plants
The Trump administration is moving to rewrite Obama-era rules limiting water pollution from coal-fired power plants. Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, sent a letter announcing his Continue Reading
Lawmakers Confuse Themselves on Climate Change
Last week, the day after President Trump signed an executive order to undo his predecessor’s efforts to fight climate change, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a Continue Reading
Global Shipping Fleet Braces for Chaos of $60 Billion Fuel Shock
Little more than 2 1/2 years from now, the global fleet of merchant ships will have to reduce drastically how much sulfur their engines belch into the atmosphere. While that Continue Reading
Beijing issues air pollution orange alert
Beijing upgraded its alert for air pollution to orange Monday afternoon, the second highest warning. The smog, affecting Beijing and adjacent Tianjin and Hebei, is forecast to last until Friday. Continue Reading
New York, other states challenge Trump over energy efficiency
A coalition of U.S. states and municipalities has begun legal action against President Donald Trump’s administration, accusing it of violating federal law by delaying energy efficiency standards for several consumer Continue Reading
Climate change becomes unavoidable for investors
To Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of the Boston asset manager GMO, the earth’s changing temperature is an investment imperative as well as a question of ethics. “The Continue Reading
Nations Renew Climate Vows, Press Trump to Do Same
European officials issued rebukes and officials around Asia said they would continue their drive toward cleaner fuels after President Donald Trump laid the groundwork to reverse his predecessor’s climate-change policies. Continue Reading
Exxon Dealt a Blow as Texas Judge Sends Climate Suit to NY
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s attempt to derail a multistate fraud probe into whether the company fully disclosed to investors the financial risks of climate change was dealt a major blow after Continue Reading
Exxon urges Trump to keep US in Paris climate accord
ExxonMobil, the largest American oil group, has written to the Trump administration urging it to keep the US in the Paris climate accord agreed at the end of 2015. In Continue Reading
Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies
President Trump, flanked by company executives and miners, signed a long-promised executive order on Tuesday to nullify President Barack Obama’s climate change efforts and revive the coal industry, effectively ceding Continue Reading
Trump’s Executive Order Pushes the U.S. Climate Pledge Further Out of Reach
During his first two months in office, President Donald J. Trump has rolled back key Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations. Without these rules in place, the United States is set to Continue Reading
Trump to Sign Executive Order to Roll Back Obama Climate-Change Policies
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday taking steps to unravel the most contentious climate-change policies of his predecessor, the White House said. The Trump administration will formally Continue Reading
Trump poised to undo Obama actions on climate change
Donald Trump is to launch a far-reaching effort to undo Barack Obama’s environmental legacy by signing an executive order to roll back the former president’s action against climate change and Continue Reading
Planned Rollback of Climate Rules Unlikely to Achieve All Trump’s Goals
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday to roll back most of President Barack Obama’s climate change legacy, celebrating the move as a way to increase Continue Reading
How Do We Know That Humans Are Causing Climate Change? These Nine Lines of Evidence
While most Americans acknowledge that climate change is happening, some are still unsure about the causes. They are often labeled “climate skeptics,” but that label can cause confusion or even Continue Reading
California Upholds Auto Emissions Standards, Setting Up Face-Off With Trump
California’s clean-air agency voted on Friday to push ahead with stricter emissions standards for cars and trucks, setting up a potential legal battle with the Trump administration over the state’s Continue Reading
ExxonMobil Just Got Hit By This Fast-Rising New Energy Problem
Big developments this week on a new challenge quickly rising for the energy industry… and beyond. Climate change reporting. ExxonMobil lost a key decision in an ongoing climate change battle Continue Reading
Climate Change May Be Intensifying China’s Smog Crisis
Chinese leaders, grappling with some of the world’s worst air pollution, have long assumed the answer to their woes was gradually reducing the level of smog-forming chemicals emitted from power Continue Reading
Record precipitation, snowpack in California expected to increase hydro generation in 2017
Drought Monitor Republished March 23, 2017, 11:30 a.m. to correct the percentage of California still in D1 status. For the first time since 2011, California’s drought is significantly weakening—a result Continue Reading
Gulf of Mexico waters are freakishly warm, which could mean explosive springtime storms
Sea surface temperature difference from average. (WeatherBell.com) Water temperatures at the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and near South Florida are on fire. They spurred a historically warm winter Continue Reading
Thousands of underground gas bulges, formed by thawing permafrost, set to ‘explode’ in Siberia
Local Siberian media has reported that the very ground that people stand on is moving under their feet in the arctic regions of Siberia. Scientists have discovered 7000 gas filled bubbles according to the Siberian Continue Reading
Trump Lays Plans to Reverse Obama’s Climate Change Legacy
President Trump is poised in the coming days to announce his plans to dismantle the centerpiece of President Barack Obama ’s climate change legacy, while also gutting several smaller but Continue Reading
Trump’s Budget: Valuing Military Over Energy
Last week President Trump unveiled his budget blueprint , which detailed savage cuts to most areas of discretionary spending while boosting defense outlays by a whopping $54 billion. Nearly all Continue Reading
Sea change needed for low-carbon economy
Nearly 70 percent of all new cars need to be electric and $3.5 trillion in annual investments are needed to keep global warming at bay, a new report found. The Continue Reading
Clean Energy Can Bring $10 Trillion Annual Benefits By 2050
A dramatically increased share of renewables and higher energy efficiency have the potential to create benefits of up to $10 trillion annually by 2050, compared to estimated incremental system costs Continue Reading
How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps
Americans want to restrict carbon emissions from coal power plants. The White House and Congress may do the opposite. Percentage of adults per congressional district who support strict CO2 limits Continue Reading
IRENA, IEA study concludes meeting 2˚C scenario possible with net positive economics
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by 70% by 2050 and completely phased-out by 2060 with a net positive economic outlook, according to new findings released by the Continue Reading
Sierra Club says EPA’s Pruitt flouting integrity rules
Following a review of fuel economy standards from the White House, the Sierra Club said it filed a complaint against the EPA for violating integrity rules. President Donald Trump vowed Continue Reading
Sharp drop in US emissions keeps global levels flat
Climate-warming emissions from burning fossil fuels have remained flat for a third year in a row in a development that suggests a shift to a greener global economy is happening Continue Reading
Trump reopens review of US fuel efficiency standards
Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the reopening of a review of future fuel economy and emissions standards for US cars, in a move that could slow down development of electric Continue Reading
EPA re-opens Mid-Term Evaluation Process for light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas standards 2022-2025
Administrator Scott Pruitt and Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced that EPA intends to reconsider its final determination issued on 12 January 2017 which recommended no change to the Continue Reading
Trump to Drop Climate Change From Environmental Reviews, Source Says
President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, Continue Reading
How James Inhofe is upending the nation’s energy and environmental policies
For more than a decade, Sen. James M. Inhofe has raged against the scientific consensus that humans are fueling climate change, calling it “the greatest hoax” ever perpetrated on Americans. Continue Reading
EPA Administrator Pruitt says rules must give market certainty
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt extended a hand of friendship to the energy industry Thursday, expressing his desire to reshape the office he heads into one that cooperates Continue Reading
On climate change, Scott Pruitt causes an uproar — and contradicts the EPA’s own website
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt does a television interview in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol before President Donald Trump delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress on February Continue Reading
Rains Expose a New Water Problem in California: Storage
Since the beginning of the year, enough water has spilled out of California’s rain-swollen Lake Oroville to meet the demands of roughly 14 million people for a year. With no Continue Reading
Trump To Undo Fuel Efficiency Standards
The Trump administration is set to undo one of former President Obama’s signature achievements. On Tuesday, the EPA and the Transportation Department are expected to jointly announce the rollback of Continue Reading
WHO attributes more than 1 in 4 deaths annually of children under 5 years to unhealthy environment
In 2015, 5.9 million children under age five died. The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies, diarrhea, injuries and malaria. Most Continue Reading