Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating emissions.
The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back greenhouse gas emission requirements for U.S. power plants, which the agency said will save $310 billion, in a press release earlier this month.
California regulators broke state environmental laws by allowing polluters to buy clean fuel credits from large farms that are extracting gas from manure, a policy that harms poor communities and perverts the state’s clean air program, four advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit.
The current El Nino could cause 451,000 excess heat deaths. Researchers warn it offers a glimpse of temperatures that may become normal within 20 years.
The Clean Air Act was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protect their citizens from conduct that brings harm to communities and costs the taxpayers billions.
Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change, and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.
Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership of individual corporate stocks, including in the fossil fuel industry.
