When the Environmental Protection Agency announced its new carbon emission rules for coal-fired plants, there were a lot of numbers that got thrown around — and quite a few that didn’t. So here’s a closer look at some numbers. As Brad McElhinny reported, coal plants that plan to stay ...
by Mark Gongloff If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called climate change a Chinese hoax, has proposed planting a trillion trees. So it might seem that the holiday tradition of chopping down ...
PITTSBURGH – As greenhouse gas and global warming worries continue around the world, a three-person team of researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory have found a means to turn carbon dioxide into a useful commercial product – acetate – and are working to grow their ...
Tomorrow is Earth Day — the one day of the year we set aside to actively think about ways we can maintain and improve our planet. In each of the last three years, we’ve looked at Earth Day from a different angle: generational concern about climate change, the intersection of personal and ...
by Anthony Pahnke “Flimflam,” “bait and switch,” or “switcheroo” — these were some things my grandfather said to warn of proposals that seemed too good to be true. On our farm, he saw his fair share of these kinds of offers, from salesmen pitching the latest, yet ...
by Michael P. Vandenbergh and Jonathan M. Gilligan The Inflation Reduction Act is both the most important federal climate legislation ever and sadly inadequate to protect the U.S. and the world from the effects of climate change. Where it falls short, states could intervene with ...