Three mornings a week, Herminia Ibarra makes her way to a fleet of sparkling electric vehicles lined up in a dusty alley alongside a former diesel repair shop. Of the […]
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Back to news homeIn Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
BAMBLE, Norway — About 110 miles south of Oslo, along a highway lined with pine and birch trees, a shiny fueling station offers a glimpse of a future where electric […]
India Chases Clean Energy, but Economic Goals Put Coal First
In the shadow of a retired coal-fired power plant in India’s capital, Meena Devi tries to make her family home — four brick walls with a tin roof — a […]
Mexico Is Buying a Texas Oil Refinery in a Quest for Energy Independence
DEER PARK, Texas — Two giant murals, on storage tanks at an oil refinery here, depict the rebels led by Sam Houston who secured Texas’ independence from Mexico in the […]
How Chemours and DuPont Avoid Paying for PFAS Pollution
A Blame-Shifting ExerciseThe transactions that created Chemours and reinvented DuPont laid the groundwork for a blame-shifting exercise that has made it difficult for regulators and others to hold anyone accountable […]
Supercritical launches carbon removal offset marketplace for tech firms reach NetZero
It’s a little known fact that the carbon footprint of the technology sector is great than the entire aviation industry (Aalto University and LUT University). At the same time, tech companies […]
Crackdown on Emissions ‘Defeat Devices’ Has Amateur Racers Up in Arms
SEMA frames the federal position as a frightening recipe for overreach, in which the E.P.A. doesn’t allow any street car to become a racecar. That would end amateur racing, and […]
E-Commerce Mega-Warehouses, a Smog Source, Face New Pollution Rule
And the industry is surging. Last year, Inland Empire, a region close to the Los-Angeles-Long Beach port where retailers and manufactures offload billions of dollars in goods, added 23 million […]
Carbon Engineering inks Shopify as its first partner for carbon removal as a service
Carbon Engineering is moving ahead with its carbon removal service business, allowing customers to buy the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using its direct air capture technology. The […]
Watching Earth Burn
I have a pastime, one that used to give me considerable pleasure, but lately it has morphed into a source of anxiety, even horror: earth-watching.Let me explain.The earth from space […]