EPA Proposes Tougher Emissions Standards For Trucks
The Biden administration today proposed the first emissions standard upgrade for heavy duty trucks, vans, and busses since 2001.
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Plastic Waste Treaty: Expert Q&A on the Promise of a Global Agreement to Reduce Pollution
Details of a proposed global plastic treaty, plus a Q and A.
Read more...‘Major Step Forward’: AIG to Stop Insuring Coal, Tar Sands, and Arctic Drilling
The campaign to get AIG to stop guaranteeing many fossil fuel development projecs has opened a new front in climate activism.
Read more...New IPCC Report Highlights Urgency of Climate Change Impacts
IPCC: Missing Paris targets would harm human health and biodiversity worldwide, and risk irreversible losses sooner than previously thought.
Read more...Europe’s Sustainable Taxonomy Is a Sideshow
The EU taxonomy grossly simplifies a complex and dynamic world. It might help prevent green-washing but other tools are needed to guide green investment.
Read more...What the Latest Science Says About Antarctica and Sea-Level Rise
Why Antarctica is a huge wild card in the progress of sea level rises.
Read more...Shareholder Activism: Icahn Targets McDonald’s Pig Pens
Carl Icahn seeks to force McDonald’s 2012 pledge to cease to use gestation crate to confine pregnant pigs within a decade.
Read more...U.S. Shale Production Hindered By Sand Supply Crunch
Sand is back as a looming problem for shale operators.
Read more...An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR and Shale Greenwashing
FTI Consulting 2015 slides tout “discrediting” science, “debunking” documentaries, and hype its fracking industry project Energy In Depth
Read more...Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms
Why big farms are often not better.
Read more...Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer
Gail Tverberg throws cold water on green energy optimism.
Read more...NYT Recognizes “That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think”
Could a well-structured class action lawsuit either prod fashion companies to build verifiable organic cotton supply chains, or abandon their claims that they’re selling organic cotton?
Read more...Update: Supreme Court to Weigh EPA Authority on Greenhouse Pollutants
Additional briefs shed light on possible outcomes of major Supreme Court case scheduled for oral arguments this month.
Read more...Resource Nationalism on Rise in Latin America, As Fever for “White Gold,” aka Lithium, Grips the World
Countries in the region are taking greater control of the revenues generated by the minerals and hydrocarbons produced within their borders, in particular when it comes to lithium.
Read more...Europe’s Nuclear Fusion Race Is Going Private
Fusion fever has hopped across the pond and is seriously gaining traction among private enterprises in Europe.
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