Climate

Chinese Industrial City to Further Cut Coal Consumption

Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang Province in China's northeastern industrial heartland, is planning to further reduce its coal consumption to curb pollution…

Legislation Aims At Atmospheric Climate Intervention Research

With scientists and climate experts increasingly sounding the alarm about the catastrophic consequences of ignoring climate change, Congressman Jerry McNerney h…

Climate Change Action A Leading Issue For NH Voters

At forum, director of the League of Conservation Voters highlights the need for candidates that support environmental legislation in 2020.

The Fracking Industry’s Methane Problem is a Climate Problem

While carbon dioxide—deservedly—gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful …

Chinese NGOs Need to Publicize Efforts on Climate

China has seen a boom in the number of climate-related NGOs in the past decade, according to Wang Xiangyi, deputy secretary-general of the China Association for…

Inside Idaho’s Long Legislative Battle Over Climate Change Education

What schools should teach kids about climate change — or whether to teach it at all — has become hotly disputed in at least a dozen states. But rarely has tha…

Climate Policy

As Minnesota Works Toward Climate Policy Reform, Dakotas See Emissions Increase

Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has taken a heavy-handed approach, while North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum and South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi …

Ditching Coal for Renewables would Cut Carbon and Costs

In Indonesia, a major producer and consumer of coal, politicians often argue that continued reliance on the highly polluting fossil fuel remains an economic nec…

Market Analysis

The Green Power Source that can do More Harm than Good

Hydropower falls into a similar category. It's basically emissions-free and a cornerstone of today's global renewable energy supply. It can be a potent means to…

European Green Deal must Look to Heat Sector and Geothermal Energy

In a statement to Italian news, EGEC's Philippe Dumas says that "the European Green Deal must look to the heat sector to face the climate crisis", and that geot…

Thermal coal

Japan Relies on Coal for 32% of Electricity Supply

During the recent United Nations climate conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain, Japan was given the “Fossil of the Day” award twice by the international environme…

Coal Mine

Goldman Sachs Abandons Coal as Investors Look to Low-Emissions Future

The latest climate talks in Madrid achieved very little, with the world's governments making glacial progress on the task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to…

Anglo American Pledges to Align Lobbying with Paris Agreement

Activist investors celebrate after mining giant promises to realign all its lobbying activity, including that done on its behalf by industry associations, with …

Crude

600-gallon Oil Spill Left Parts of the Galapagos Islands

The spill is reportedly the result of an error at a port on San Cristobal Island. An accident saw a crane collapse as it was loading a barge with a container ca…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

San Diego Reaches 2020 Climate Goals Two Years Early

San Diego reached its 2020 goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions two years ahead of schedule, according to a city report set to be released Monday.