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Resurgent state sector risks worsening trade tension with U.S. State controls 67% of steel capacity, 80% of coal: analyst President Xi Jinping’s big push to curb pollution and excess capacity Continue Reading
High atop the ski lift at Zar Mountain in southern Poland, the villages below disappear. At first, they seem obscured by morning fog. But the yellow haze does not lift. Continue Reading
A small tremor was recorded early Friday in the shale heartland of Oklahoma, one day after state regulators limited work because of seismic activity. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a Continue Reading
Water supply levels in California were bolstered in March but still sit below normal, after several late winter storms increased snowpack and reservoir levels, according to the California Department of Continue Reading
As Bob Dudley set out BP’s strategy for adapting to a lower-carbon energy system at an event in London this week, there was a familiar face in the front row Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell has recommended that its shareholders vote against a climate resolution that an activist climate group wants passed at the annual general meeting next month. Dutch climate group Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell defended its ambition to cut carbon emissions on Monday, urging investors to oppose a shareholder resolution arguing that the oil and gas giant is not doing enough Continue Reading
BP is making preparations for a lower carbon future, and is keeping its greenhouse gas emissions either at or below the levels it saw in 2015, according to a new Continue Reading
Massachusetts’ top court on Friday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s bid to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of Continue Reading
It’s called “Day Zero” : when Cape Town, South Africa’s bustling port city, sees its water taps run dry, and its population thrust into a perilous situation. Originally projected for Continue Reading
While issuing a call to the governor to halt new oil and gas projects, an environmental advocacy group said companies in California repeatedly broke state laws. In its review of Continue Reading
The Environmental Defense Fund is planning to build and launch a satellite that would look for industrial methane leaks. The launch is planned for late 2020 or early 2021. Tom Continue Reading
Global warming is weakening the circulation of the North Atlantic ocean, which plays a crucial role in the world’s climate, including keeping winters in western Europe relatively mild. Two international Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell said it saw little risk of being left with “stranded assets” as the world begins to shift away from fossil fuels and promised to keep pace with the Continue Reading
Much of the modern world’s agricultural productivity, industrial activity, and high degree of urbanization is dependent upon the pumping and exploitation of limited freshwater resources. In some regions the water Continue Reading
Oklahoma regulators forced an oil and gas producer to reduce operations on a well used for disposing of saltwater following a large earthquake over the weekend that set off a Continue Reading
A growing number of Republicans are calling on Donald Trump to take action against his Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, whose record as one of the president’s most aggressive Continue Reading
We recently attended Fatih Birol’s presentation in advance of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) first publication of the Global Energy and CO₂ Status Report. Their flagship publication, World Energy Outlook, Continue Reading
An internal Shell report from 1988 has revealed the supermajor was aware of the effect of its business on climate. The report, uncovered by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers from the Continue Reading
Shell knew climate change was going to be big, was going to be bad, and that its products were responsible for global warming all the way back in the 1980s, Continue Reading
Global warming of 1.5°C is imminent, likely in just a decade from now. That’s the stunning conclusion to be drawn from a number of recent studies, surveyed below. Paris Commitments Continue Reading
The top legal officers from 11 states and Washington D.C. on Tuesday promised to defend federal automobile efficiency standards against a rollback proposed by the Trump administration this week. “All Continue Reading
While a trade group representing the U.S. auto industry said a review of fuel standards was the right move, critics said it would hurt the average consumer. Environmental Protection Agency Continue Reading
On Monday, the Trump administration formally declared that Obama-era fuel economy rules for automobiles were too strict and would likely be weakened in the months ahead. So how strict are Continue Reading
Map showing rates of grounding-line migration and their coincidence with ocean conditions around Antarctica between 2010 and 2016. (Credit: Hannes Konrad et al, University of Leeds.) Antarctica’s ocean-front glaciers are Continue Reading
China’s city of Handan has ordered steel mills to cut production by around 25 percent as part of new measures to curb pollution from April to mid-November, according to a Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Monday rejected an Obama-era plan to make automobiles more fuel efficient, opening up a long process to weaken current standards and putting California and the federal Continue Reading
Giving drillers the rights to reach nearly 50 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will come with a degree of responsibility, the U.S. government said. The U.S. Continue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency did not say how far the Obama-era rules should be rolled back, only that it would seek “more appropriate” standards. Want the latest climate news in Continue Reading
Europe’s biggest gas field–Groningen in the north of the Netherlands–has been pumping gas for more than half a century and supplies gas to 98 percent of the Dutch population. But Continue Reading
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce in the coming days that it will be rolling back the fuel economy targets for cars and SUVs—a move that Continue Reading
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will sign a final determination by Sunday which will begin a months-long effort to weaken US fuel economy standards and likely set off Continue Reading
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed Exxon Mobil Corp’s lawsuit seeking to stop New York and Massachusetts from probing whether the company misled investors and the public about climate change Continue Reading
The Obama-era rules to be reconsidered were designed to address global warming and put the United States at the forefront of global car-efficiency regulation. The Trump administration is expected to Continue Reading
The Trump administration is expected to move to weaken US fuel economy standards for 2022-25 model year cars this week ahead of a regulatory deadline Sunday, setting up a confrontation Continue Reading
President Trump shakes hands with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in June after announcing plans to withdraw the United States from the international Paris climate change accord. (Andrew Harnik/AP) Environmental Protection Continue Reading
In a first for the bloc, the European Parliament made a provisional agreement to monitor emissions and fuel consumption from heavy-duty vehicles. The European body said it would work on Continue Reading
Diesel-powered passenger vehicle sales are declining in Europe as governments put more pressure on automakers to cut production and sales in the post-Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating scandal landscape. Diesel passenger Continue Reading
The EPA has readied a final determination that calls for the rolling back of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, according to the Wall Street Journal . The current standards Continue Reading
Winter sea ice on the Arctic Ocean covered the second smallest area on record this year, part of a thaw that is opening the region to shipping and oil exploration Continue Reading
The trend indicates that global efforts to reduce emissions are “insufficient,” according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. Total energy-related emissions jumped by 1.4 percent to 32.5 Continue Reading
On World Water Day, March 22, universal access to clean water continues to be a privilege, when it should be a right. Experts predict that by 2030 the global water Continue Reading
After three flat years that had hinted at a possible environmental breakthrough, carbon dioxide emissions from the use of energy rose again by 1.4 percent in 2017, according to new data released Continue Reading
A Chevron attorney said in court on Wednesday that the company supports scientific conclusions that humans are causing climate change, a response to a lawsuit that accuses five major energy Continue Reading
Vessel operators who plan to run ships on scrubbers to meet the International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur cap rule should lock in long term contracts now with bunker suppliers, industry Continue Reading
The owners of 60,000 cargo ships are bracing for tighter emissions rules that are forcing them to make a multibillion-dollar choice: Start buying cleaner-burning fuel or invest in a device Continue Reading
Natural gas has been billed as the key “bridge fuel” that will help the energy transition, replacing coal while buying time for renewable energy to scale up. However, even as Continue Reading
For some time, scientists fearing the mass release of greenhouse gases from the carbon-rich, frozen soils of the Arctic have had at least one morsel of good news in their Continue Reading
As Cape Town inches towards ‘Zero Hour’ set for July 15, 2018, the real threat of water scarcity is finally hitting millions of people worldwide. For on that day, the Continue Reading
1929-1958 1959-1988 Winters in the United States have gotten warmer in the past 30 years, and some of the coldest parts of the country have warmed up the most. In Continue Reading