Environment

The excitement of electric vehicles mixed with cheaper materials costs is driving an unprecedented transition.

Though no mode of oil transport is perfect, pipelines have proven to be the safest and most environmentally friendly way to carry oil.

A cleanup operation is underway after the incident, which saw five gallons of the pollutant leak into the waters every minute.

The technologies and financing needed are either already in place or within reach. The main missing ingredient needed now is evolution in our thinking and policy discourse.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order halting oil and gas drilling. California environmentalists are pushing their governor to get on board.

The president said he did not back the Green Deal before he was elected but his environmental orders announced on Wednesday have still been hailed by progressives.

President Joe Biden suspended the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline project on Wednesday, a controversial project that would have shipped hundreds of thousands of barrels of carbon-heavy oil from Canada to the U.S. daily.

Estimated costs have soared by 45 percent since 2014, with auditors finding that one site near Los Angeles could cost almost $800 million.

"Some of the things we're going to be doing are going to be bold and vital," President Joe Biden said after signing several executive orders on his first day in office.

The ads reference the popular "Got milk?" slogan used by the dairy industry.

As world leaders mark the deal without the U.S, the Swedish activist told CNN she was optimistic that a Joe Biden administration would rejoin the accord.

If Biden needs someone to play the part and please progressives, without getting anything done that could hurt the administration, Inslee is his best bet.

Officials in China's northeastern Liaoning Province investigated the phenomenon and discovered a link to a local reservoir of natural gas, state media reported Tuesday.

Tesla's addition to the S&P 500 next month may have settled the chicken-or-the-egg argument about the future of electric vehicles.

"It should go without saying that someone who advised DuPont on how to avoid regulations is not someone we want advising this new administration," Brockovich wrote.

Billions of pounds spent and tens of thousands of jobs created according to the U.K.'s new Green Industrial Revolution - but how far does it actually go to tackle climate change?

Should he win the presidency, Biden faces the mammoth task of rolling back around 100 environmental deregulations put in place by the Trump administration.

During the final debate, President Donald Trump claimed that Biden's environmental plan would ruin the oil industry.

"I think young people right now have a very activist, disciplined mindset and they are not here with the intent of voting for their favorite person," Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday on CNN.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that Biden wants to ban fracking outright despite that not being the position of the former vice president.

Scientists have discovered polluted air has an impact on the health of babies while they are still in the womb.

The ban on plastic bags in New York State can be enforced from today following a seven-month delay.

Just 11 percent of Trump supporters say climate change is very important to their 2020 election choices.

Discarded face masks are frequently being found lying on beaches in Brazil, local marine conservationists have said.

"Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so," the editors wrote.

Wildfire smoke from the west coast has reached as far east as the Great Lakes region.

"Extinction Rebellion is a pretty sinister infrastructure. For them, it's being strategic to erase people like me who come from a climate justice background."

The chemical perchlorate, found in explosives, matches and rocket fuel, is believed to cause birth defects.

The air quality in the Bay Area is expected to be at a moderate level from Thursday.

The administration announced a leasing program on Monday that will open up more than 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.