Massachusetts became the latest state investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about how climate change may affect its business. News of the state’s probe came as Continue Reading
Charges that Exxon Mobil misled the public about the potential industry impacts on the environment are tainted by political motivations, the company said. The attorney generals from 20 states announced Continue Reading
For half a century, climate scientists have seen the West Antarctic ice sheet, a remnant of the last ice age, as a sword of Damocles hanging over human civilization. The Continue Reading
Oklahoma’s governor defended the state response to the seismic activity attributed to oil and gas development against a federal report on the hazard. “Oklahoma remains committed to doing whatever is Continue Reading
Massachusetts became the latest state investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about how climate change may affect its business. News of the state’s probe came as Continue Reading
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published its first-ever maps showing potential ground-shaking hazards from human-induced and natural earthquakes Monday. Previously, USGS maps only showed natural earthquake hazards. But concerns over Continue Reading
The Obama administration on Monday offered a comprehensive legal defense of its signature climate-change regulation limiting carbon emissions from power plants, telling an appeals court that the rule is well Continue Reading
Rockefeller Family Fund pulls investments from fossil fuels industry, singling out Exxon Mobil for allegations it downplayed the impact the oil sector had on climate change. Photo by Katherine Welles/Shutterstock Continue Reading
The Rockefeller Family Fund said on Wednesday it would divest from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and “eliminate holdings” of Exxon Mobil Corp, saying the oil company associated with Continue Reading
A sign is seen at the entrance of the Exxonmobil Port Allen Lubricants Plant in Port Allen, Louisiana, November 6, 2015. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled Exxon Continue Reading
Melting ice image via shutterstock . Reproduced on Resilience.org with permission. And another one bites the dust. The year 2014 was the warmest ever recorded by humans. Then 2015 was Continue Reading
Across the country, coal-fired power plants consume 7.4 billion cubic meters of water each year, enough to meet the basic needs of about 30 percent of the nation’s population. Credit Continue Reading
An influential group of scientists led by James Hansen, the former NASA scientist often credited with having drawn the first major attention to climate change in 1988 congressional testimony, has Continue Reading
An estimated three out of four jobs globally are dependent on water, meaning that shortages and lack of access are likely to limit economic growth in the coming decades, the Continue Reading
The total number of earthquakes across Oklahoma has increased 23 percent from this time last year, though most of the quakes are very small according to USGS data. Oklahoma started Continue Reading
When Martin Winterkorn dropped by to order some new glasses in the Volkswagen company town of Wolfsburg, he was “visibly dejected”, according to his optician. But the visit wasn’t last Continue Reading
Five seismic events were reported by the U.S. Geological Survey in Oklahoma in the last 24 hours as the state works to stem incidents tied to oil and gas work. Continue Reading
An unconventional approach to cooling sends heat to the cold sky. Air conditioning accounts for almost 15 percent of all energy use by buildings in the United States. One way Continue Reading
Two recent studies further call into question the oil and gas industry’s claims of the climate benefits and community benefits of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) . One of those studies, published Continue Reading
The Obama administration’s decision to crack down on the methane leaking from nearly 1 million oil and gas wells across the country promises to reduce greenhouse gases but also imposes Continue Reading
The Obama administration is expected to announce its first step toward regulating methane emissions from hundreds of thousands of oil and natural gas wells across the U.S., a move likely Continue Reading
ExxonMobil is being investigated by the Attorney’s General of New York and California with a view to criminal charges for securities fraud and racketeering over their stance on climate change. Continue Reading
Recently, we’ve had more reason than usual to be optimistic on climate change — the world reached its first truly global climate agreement in December , there are a lot Continue Reading
The Obama administration is expected to announce its first step toward regulating methane emissions from hundreds of thousands of oil and natural gas wells across the U.S., a move likely Continue Reading
The Lower 48 states had its warmest winter in 121 years of record-keeping, NOAA announced this morning. Temperatures averaged over the country between December and February were nearly five degrees Continue Reading
Oklahoma’s oil and gas regulator released an expanded plan on Monday that will curtail wastewater injection volumes and well depth to deal with the state’s increasingly frequent earthquakes. The Oklahoma Continue Reading
China’s carbon dioxide emissions are likely to peak by 2025 — and may even have done so already — according to a new paper that suggests the country’s economic slowdown Continue Reading
Japanese authorities said they found on-road emissions were much higher than in laboratory tests of certain diesel-powered vehicles made by Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Continue Reading
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied a long-shot request by states seeking to block an environmental regulation cutting mercury pollution from power plants, a boost for the Obama administration. A Continue Reading
Fossil fuel millionaires collectively pumped more than $100m into Republican presidential contenders’ efforts last year – in an unprecedented investment by the oil and gas industry in the party’s future. Continue Reading
It isn’t just sweaters the kindergartners are wearing as they pour out of their classrooms onto the lawns of the American Embassy School in India ’s capital city. They are Continue Reading
Climate scientists have bad news for governments, energy companies, motorists, passengers and citizens everywhere in the world: to contain global warming to the limits agreed by 195 nations in Paris Continue Reading
If a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, the oil industry sees the Paris climate accord not as a death knell, but an opportunity to innovate and even grow. Continue Reading
The first red alert over air pollution in the Chinese capital almost brought this city to a standstill in December, with schools shut, construction halted and driving restricted. Now, in Continue Reading
Seismic activity in shale-rich Oklahoma was apparent again, with the U.S. Geological Survey recording three minor events in less than 24 hours as of Monday. Three tremors of magnitude-3 or Continue Reading
The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists Continue Reading
The charging plug of an electric Volkswagen Passat car is pictured at charging station at a VW dealer in Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2016. U.S. authorities have asked the German Continue Reading
The Sierra Club and the public interest law firm Public Justice have filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against three energy companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking , in Oklahoma. Continue Reading
A leaking gas well near the US city of Los Angeles which has been polluting the air for four months has been “permanently sealed,” officials say. The Southern California Gas Continue Reading
Environmental advocacy group Sierra Club said it filed a lawsuit against energy companies involved in Oklahoma shale in part because of the rise of earthquakes. The U.S. Geological Survey reported Continue Reading
The U.S. Geological Survey reported at least 9 minor earthquakes since the weekend in Oklahoma, a state wary of the connection between fracking and tremors. The USGS reported two magnitude-2.8 Continue Reading
A utility company got control of a leaking well that spewed natural gas for nearly four months and uprooted thousands of Los Angeles residents. Here’s a look at what needs Continue Reading
Alarming new research has found that 4 billion people around the globe — including close to 2 billion in India and China — live in conditions of extreme water scarcity Continue Reading
Two recent drinking water investigations in Texas show dangerous levels of contamination. The larger study tested 550 water samples collected from public and private water wells in the north Texas Continue Reading
Oil and gas wastewater disposal has been tied to a series of earthquakes in California for the first time, in a peer-reviewed study published last Thursday. A string of quakes Continue Reading
China’s forests and wider ecosystem store around 100 billion tonnes of carbon that would otherwise contribute to climate change talks, according to new official research. The Chinese Academy of Sciences Continue Reading
As the Supreme Court issues a stay on a pivotal Clean Power Plan, the White House said the EPA would continue working with states to reduce their emissions. In North Continue Reading
The Supreme Court ’s surprise decision Tuesday to halt President Obama’s climate change regulation could weaken or even imperil the international global warming accord reached with great ceremony in Paris Continue Reading
BP PLC Chief Executive Bob Dudley called on governments Wednesday to do more to encourage a shift to lower-carbon fuels, warning that the world is on course to see global Continue Reading
A division of the World Meteorological Organization criticized an Australian move to cut staff from a conservation division as worrisome. The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, tasked in Continue Reading
