Greenhouse Gas

China, the world’s largest polluter, is defending itself by claiming polluting is a human right in the name of development in the country.

On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee pledged to reduce both its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a U.N. climate meeting this weekend.

California Public Utilities Commission has pushed to eliminate natural gas appliances as part of Democrats’ initiative to reduce carbon emissions. This could impoverish already struggling Californians by raising the cost of housing by thousands of dollars.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report on Wednesday which found that greenhouse gas emissions decreased during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, which runs counter to the narrative that Trump’s deregulatory agenda would lead to more emissions.

NASA’s new administrator Jim Bridenstine has done his president a grave disservice. Perhaps he thinks he has just been politic – canny even – by publicly reversing his stated position on man-made climate change and declaring himself a true believer.

Southern California port workers who once went on strike while making $1,200 per day are seeing their jobs automated in the fight against climate change.

I have a simple solution that will also save the planet. Each country should henceforth pay its UN dues in direct proportion to its previous year’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

California claims to be able to permanently replace fossil-fuel generated electricity with “intermittent” wind and solar generation, but the state’s electrical grid is on the verge of crisis as it may soon run out of the ability to import enough fossil-fuel electricity.

Stanford’s Board of Trustees announced April 25 that the university endowment voted to refuse to divest its holdings in oil and gas companies, despite threats from students and some alumni.

California Gov. Jerry Brown addressed a public hearing on Thursday in Sacramento and made clear he will continue his war on fossil fuels.

A new Pew Research Center survey, released as Pope Francis publishes an encyclical on the environment and climate change, finds that 71% of self-identified American Catholics believe the earth is getting warmer, but only 47% attribute the perceived warming to human activity.

On Tuesday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed onto a pact between 12 regions in seven countries, including four U.S. states, binding each to reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically. The goal of the cuts is to keep the rise in global average surface temperatures below 2º Celsius. However, recent revisions by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change suggest global temperatures are projected to rise by less than 1º C over 30 years–and perhaps by less than 0.5º C.

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Wednesday mandating a statewide reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent under 1990 levels by 2030, an ambitious addition to the state’s already-tough emissions cutback targets.