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China’s War on Pollution Fuels State Takeover of Heavy Industry

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

Posted On : 23 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • Poland

Smothered by Smog, Polish Cities Rank Among Europe’s Dirtiest

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

Posted On : 23 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Earthquakes

Tremor reported in shale-rich Oklahoma

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

Posted On : 21 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

California hydro generation, water levels jump; outlook still shows drought: state

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

Posted On : 20 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Prices
  • Renewables

Major dilemma: oil companies hedge bets on low-carbon future

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

Posted On : 18 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • International Oil Companies

Shell Advises Shareholders To Reject Binding Climate Resolution

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

Posted On : 18 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • International Oil Companies

Shell defends climate strategy in clash with investors

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

Posted On : 17 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • United Kingdom

BP To Keep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Steady, Environmentalists Unimpressed

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

Posted On : 17 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • International Oil Companies

Massachusetts top court rules against Exxon in climate change probe

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

Posted On : 14 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

Cities around the world should prepare for running out of water

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

Posted On : 13 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Environment

Advocacy group raises California oil and gas alarm

 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

Posted On : 13 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Environment

An Eye in the Sky Could Detect Planet-Warming Plumes on the Ground

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

Posted On : 13 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Global warming to give colder winters and hotter summers

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

Posted On : 12 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • International Oil Companies

Shell sets out strategy for dealing with shift from fossil fuels

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

Posted On : 12 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

Fossil Water Depletion, Groundwater Contamination, Saltwater Intrusion, & Permanent Subsidence

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

Posted On : 10 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Earthquakes

Oklahoma Orders Cut to Disposal Well Volumes Following Quakes

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

Posted On : 10 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Republicans turn on Trump’s environment chief

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

Posted On : 9 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Oil Supply

Top ten takeaways: The world energy outlook

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

Posted On : 6 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

New Document Suggests Shell Knew About Climate Change 30 Years Ago

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

Posted On : 6 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Here is What #ShellKnew about Climate Change in the 1980s

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

Posted On : 6 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

1.5°C of Warming is Closer than We Imagine, Just a Decade Away

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

Posted On : 6 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Transportation
  • USA

Attorneys general from 11 U.S. states vow to defend auto efficiency standards

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

Posted On : 4 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

EPA says Obama-era fuel guidelines were politically charged

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

Posted On : 4 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Prices
  • Transportation

How U.S. Fuel Economy Standards Compare With the Rest of the World’s

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

Posted On : 4 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

An alarming 10 percent of Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are now in retreat, scientists find

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

Posted On : 3 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • China

China’s Handan orders 25 percent steel production cut from April 1

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

Posted On : 3 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

EPA to relax fuel efficiency standards for autos

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

Posted On : 3 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Environment
  • Oil Supply
  • USA

U.S. strikes environmental bell with next offshore lease

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

Posted On : 3 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Calling Car Pollution Standards ‘Too High,’ E.P.A. Sets Up Fight With California

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

Posted On : 3 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Earthquakes
  • Netherlands

Europe’s Biggest Gas Field To Close Over Quake Risk

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

Posted On : 2 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • Transportation
  • USA

EPA To Scrap Fuel Efficiency Rules

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

Posted On : 31 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • Transportation
  • USA

EPA chief to sign fuel economy determination this weekend: sources

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

Posted On : 31 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • International Oil Companies

U.S. judge dismisses Exxon suit seeking to stop climate change probes

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

Posted On : 30 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality

E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient

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

Posted On : 30 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

US EPA poised to weaken 2022-25 fuel economy targets

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

Posted On : 29 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

EPA staffers get talking points playing down human role in climate change

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

Posted On : 29 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • Europe

In a first, EU to review emissions to heavy-duty vehicles

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

Posted On : 28 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • Europe

Europe Cracks Down On Diesel Vehicles

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

Posted On : 28 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Trump Looks To Undo Fuel Efficiency Standards

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

Posted On : 27 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Arctic Ocean ice near record low for winter, boost for shipping

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

Posted On : 24 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Global C02 Emissions Rise For The First Time In 3 Years

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

Posted On : 23 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

Is Desalination an Answer to the Water Crisis?

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

Posted On : 23 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Last year dashed hopes for a climate change turnaround

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

Posted On : 23 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • International Oil Companies

Chevron Says It Will Not Dispute Climate Science in US Lawsuit

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

Posted On : 23 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality

Ship operators need to lock in HSFO supply now for vessels running on scrubbers: sources

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

Posted On : 21 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality

Ship Owners’ Multibillion-Dollar Quandary: Buy Cleaner Fuel or a Fuel Cleaner?

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

Posted On : 20 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Natural Gas Supply

Natural Gas Is Under Attack

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

Posted On : 20 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Arctic
  • Climate

The Arctic’s carbon bomb might be even more potent than we thought

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

Posted On : 20 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Water

Water Scarcity: India’s Silent Crisis

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

Posted On : 17 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Where Are America’s Winters Warming the Most? In Cold Places.

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

Posted On : 17 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple

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