Politics

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...

Last week, we wrote about the results of a Twitter poll we put up to get a feel for what our readers like best about the site. The flipside of "most valuable" is "least valuable," so we put up the same list of choices again, this time asking survey respondents to rank their least favorite types of...

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.

The EPA expects demand for ethanol-free gasoline to gradually dissipate.

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

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former labor secretary Elaine Chao to be his secretary of transportation yesterday. She will follow current DoT secretary Antony Foxx, who himself succeeded Ray LaHood in 2013. Foxx has focused on safety recalls following the GM ignition scandal, as well as...

The EPA increased the amount of ethanol to be blended with gasoline for 2017.

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...

A House bill aims to cap the amount of ethanol blended with the U.S. fuel supply.

One week ago this morning, the U.S. and the world woke up to learn that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States. The shockwaves of that election are still reverberating, and will do so for quite some time to come. Among the groups concerned are environmentalists, clean-energy...

New Jersey will now dedicate all of its gas-tax revenue to its transportation-infrastructure fund.

Donald Trump named a proud climate-science denier to head his EPA transition team.

Germany's economic minister that Chinese electric-car mandates would give an unfair advantage to Chinese automakers.

New Jersey was always the place for residents of neighboring states—Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania—to buy cheap gasoline. That era ended two days ago, when a political deal struck between its legislature and the governor raised the state gas tax by a whopping 23 cents a gallon...

The head of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association is confident the rest of the world will follow Norway's lead.

Renewable-energy growth hit a record pace in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency.

Quebec has become the first Canadian province to adopt a requirement for sales of a certain number of zero-emission vehicles, similar to the one in effect in California. Quebec's Assemblée Nationale passed the regulation on October 26 by a unanimous vote of 112 to 0, and to universal praise...

Santa Monica, California, will require all new single-family construction to be zero-net energy.