March 11th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
I have never heard of "The Diesel Brothers," and it's obvious I am not missing much. I mean, why would someone want to put diesel emissions in their pants? Or imitate the idea of farting out diesel gasses to the point where you get this stuff near your butt? I get it — fart jokes are funny. But this isn't
March 3rd, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Let the children suffocate. That is the vicious message from President Trump in his proposed budget cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency for fiscal year
March 1st, 2020 | by NRDC
Climate change is a public health crisis, and we need every doctor, nurse, and other health professional to help fight it
January 29th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
One-third of all Americans live in areas that suffered through at least 100 days of poor air quality due to air pollution in 2018, according to a new report by Environment America Research & Policy Center, Frontier Group and U.S. PIRG Education Fund
September 25th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Last week, the EPA said California was doing too much to cut auto emissions. This week, it says California is not doing enough to cut air pollution, putting California in a no win situation.
September 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Donald Tramp has revoked California's waiver under the Clean Air Act that allows it to set emissions standards that are tougher than federal guidelines. Expect this issue to wind up in the courts very soon.
September 8th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
The US government has put car companies on notice that if they dare oppose the president's plan to roll back fuel economy standards, they will be accused of antitrust violations.
November 25th, 2018 | by Jake Richardson
The state of Colorado recently passed a low-emission vehicle (LEV) standard to start with the 2022 vehicle model year. Jeremy Neustifter, an air quality planner with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, answered some questions about this for CleanTechnica
September 14th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
NY state will phase out hydrofluorocarbons, unlike Trump's
August 18th, 2018 | by Frugal Moogal
The EPA has stated its intent to freeze Obama-era fuel efficiency standards at the 2020 levels. This could be a disaster for the industry the EPA is supposedly trying to help. Due to a waiver to enforce their own air standards, California may just be able to save the US auto industry from itself. To understand what that means, we need to look at some history first
May 3rd, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
While the US has every reason to be proud of its efforts to clean up the skies over America, the process is one that requires continuous vigilance. The efforts of the Trump administration to roll back a broad spectrum of clean air regulations has many concerned the gains made in the past 50 years could be lost
March 19th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The UK is requiring the implementation of ambitious new laws designed to improve air quality and avoid a human health "catastrophe," according to a report jointly released by 4 separate parliamentary committees
October 31st, 2017 | by James Ayre
As part of the measures following from US President Donald Trump's executive order issued back in March calling for the easing of "regulatory burdens" on the energy industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency will be reviewing the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, amongst others, it was announced last Wednesday
August 11th, 2017 | by The Beam
As we revealed in our previous article, air pollution is a serious problem that costs millions of lives each year and is a drain on the world economy. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution is now a bigger health threat than HIV and Ebola. You might now be wondering how your own city measures up against others from around the world, where it sits in the rankings, and what the health effects of air pollution might be
March 20th, 2017 | by Susan Kraemer
It's beginning to look like our democracy is actually better defended against strong-man autocracy than I feared. The constitution, the fourth estate, the rule of law, have all taken massive hits, but remain standing, and are even eking out surprising wins after literally "unpresidented" assaults from the Oval Office
November 2nd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Clearly, the political focus of the year is a certain mind-boggling presidential candidate who hardly touches policy matters -- and when he does, tends to push absurd ideas and proposals that would tank our economy, lead to world war, destroy our climate and environment, and piss off our allies. However, as I wrote the other day, Donald Trump's success in politics wasn't magic -- far from it. Donald Trump's success in politics was built on the back of decades worth of conspiracy theories and anti-science rhetoric and extremism from the Republican Party. (Come on, people, there's a reason he won the GOP nomination.)
March 22nd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Closing out this series of “link bombs,” here are other cleantech/green news items that don’t fit into the solar energy, [&hellip
November 19th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (June 2, 2014), a far-reaching measure that limits the amount of carbon the United [&hellip
August 7th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
The Clean Power Plan just finalized by the Obama administration has occupied the media for most of a week now. So what’s [&hellip
August 3rd, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Later today at the White House, President Obama and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will officially release the final [&hellip
July 30th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
“It’s time to act,” says the Natural Resources Defense Council in Clean Power: The Case For Carbon Pollution Limits, its [&hellip
April 25th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Those who take the Wall Street Journal for gospel miss a lot of what’s going on with US energy, says Denise [&hellip
April 20th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration released its Annual Energy Outlook. EIA’s big news: American energy imports and exports will [&hellip
