World carbon pollution falls 17 percent, study shows
According to a new study, the world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the height of the pandemic shutdown last month.
To cut carbon emissions, a movement grows to ‘electrify everything’
In an effort to move away from fossil fuels, U.S. communities from California to Massachusetts are instituting bans on natural gas in new construction. Proponents say the measures are critical for speeding the transition to an all-electric future powered by…
Outbreak triggers drop in climate-changing emissions, Energy Department projects
Despite mocking the idea of climate change, President Donald Trump will preside over one of the country’s sharpest drops in climate-damaging emissions on record, as the economic paralysis from the coronavirus tamps down energy use, according to an Energy Department…
Global energy-related carbon emissions flattened out in 2019
Data published Tuesday showed declines in rich countries balancing out a rise in poor nations.
Inventors claim their carbon capture “battery” could return CO2 to preindustrial levels within 40 years, but first it has some economic hurdles to overcome.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf took a step toward capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants Thursday, part of an effort to fight climate change in a heavily populated and fossil fuel-rich state that has long been one of the nation's…
Here’s how the top-10 polluters are succeeding and falling behind on reducing carbon emissions -- and how they can improve.
The Trump administration says American consumers increasingly want bigger, gas-guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks.
In Oregon, 11 important people are missing: Republican state lawmakers, who are nowhere to be found amid a partisan standoff now in its fifth day. The legislators walked out to stop the state Senate from acting on a contentious climate…
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