emissions

Cars that run entirely or partly on electricity from a battery pack have no tailpipe emissions, but to judge their overall impact, you have to look at lifetime wells-to-wheels emissions. That includes emissions associated with extracting, refining, and burning the fuel used to make the electricity...

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicates that his administration will pursue radically different energy policies from its predecessor's. Pruitt is a climate-science denier, and has sued the agency he...

Low-carbon energy use in the U.K. is up, and the government hopes to phase out coal by 2025.

Renewable-energy growth has accelerated in 2016, but this may go down as a milestone year for one renewable-energy source in particular. Together, all renewable-energy sources are expected to account for 8 percent of U.S. electricity-generation capacity in 2017, according to the Department of...

Obama administration officials are working to expedite new automotive regulations.

Unsubsidized utility-scale solar power is now cheaper than natural gas, according to new analysis.

Germany may fall short of its carbon-emissions reduction targets for 2020.

Methane emissions may rival carbon dioxide as a climate-change instigator, new research suggests.

A new study estimates global carbon emissions did not increase dramatically in 2016.

California's role as the leading advocate for green cars may become more important.

The European Commission alleges certain nations don't enforce emissions standards strictly enough.

West African nations are pushing back against European traders importing dirty diesel fuel.

If there were any doubt that president-elect Donald Trump supports fossil fuels and does not believe in the scientific consensus of climate change, his pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should put it to rest. Yesterday, he named Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, a...

A week ago, the EPA recommended that U.S. vehicle emission standards stay put for the years 2022 through 2025. According to the Technical Assessment Report the agency issued in July, automakers have so far quite successfully met standards in place since 2012 to cut emissions of the climate-change...

Ford will ask President-elect Donald Trump to lower fuel-economy standards, CEO Mark Fields said in a recent interview.

Two days ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a ruling that existing limits on tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide for 2022 through 2025 should remain in place. The EPA's carbon limits correspond exactly to NHTSA standards for corporate average fuel economy, and the EPA decision...

The mayors of Athens, Madrid, Mexico City, and Paris pledged to ban all diesel vehicles in their jurisdictions by 2025.

The EPA plans to maintain current fuel-economy standards through 2025.

Morgan Stanley believes electric cars will make up 10 to 15 percent of global new-car sales by 2025.

As the Volkswagen diesel scandal lumbers onwards, German media outlets have often broken the latest news and revelations from deep inside VW Group. While the German auto giant had hoped at first to have the issue largely wrapped up by now, the scandal first publicly revealed in September 2015 shows...