Tag: greenhouse gas emissions
‘Getting Heavier’: Climate Change Primes Storms to Drop More Rain
The severe storm system that has inundated the central and southeastern United States with heavy rain and high winds for days fits into...
Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits
Two chemical industry groups are asking President Trump for a complete exemption to free their factories from new limits on hazardous air pollution.Under...
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The Trump administration has abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United States...
Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Republican States Have the...
In less than three weeks, President Trump has thrown the U.S. clean energy industry into chaos, with much of the economic damage hitting...
January Was Hottest January on Record, Scientists Report
Even as much of the United States shivered under frigid conditions last month, the planet as a whole had its warmest January on...
Chris Wright Is Confirmed as Secretary of Energy
The Senate confirmed Chris Wright to lead the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, putting the former oil executive in a key position...
$35 Billion Loan Project, Led by the World Bank, Aims to...
The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to...
Wind Power in U.S. Faces Hit From Trump’s Executive Order
President Trump launched a broad attack on the wind power industry in the United States, with a sweeping executive order that could block...
Trump Plans to Order U.S. Exit From World’s Main Climate Pact
The White House on Monday said that President Trump would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the pact among almost all...
Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged
At the height of the Los Angeles County wildfires, atmospheric concentrations of lead, a neurotoxin, reached 100 times average levels even miles from...
