Enlarge / Traffic jam forms on Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles. (credit: Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News) The Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge associated with restoring California’s ability to set strict tailpipe emissions limits, according to news reports, while at the same time looking in adopting a version of the state’s […]
Enlarge / Exhaust from fossil fuel vehicles is a significant contributor to PM2. 5 pollution in the US. (credit: Ina Fassbender/picture alliance) At the outset of the pandemic, when lockdowns were widespread, the remarkable phenomenon occurred. Places that had been saturated with pollution suddenly cleared. The sky over Los Angeles turned blue. Snow-capped mountain ranges […]
Enlarge (credit: Luke Sharrett via Getty Images ) The Environmental Protection Agency today announced more stringent fuel economy requirements that will require passenger vehicles to travel 70 percent farther on a gallon of gasoline. The Biden administration introduced earlier this year that it would be revising the Trump-era specifications, which sought to increase fleet average […]
Right now, a lot of the methane created or extracted during other activities goes to waste. (credit: Lawrence Berkeley Lab ) The EPA announced new rules today that would slash methane leaks from the oil and gas sector, a significant source of carbon emissions that represents 30 percent of methane pollution in the US. Nearly […]
Enlarge / Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has announced a major effort to handle environmental contamination by chemicals called PFAS. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images ) On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called a “comprehensive national strategy” to handle pollution by a group of industrial chemicals that are […]
Enlarge / Even though this stream bed is dry much of the year, it still may qualify for regulation under the Clean Water Take action. (credit: Wild Horizon / Getty Images ) The latest legal decision in a years-long fight over how to implement the Clean Water Act has set rules back to where they […]
Enlarge / The Biden plan does not include a requirement that all new vehicles be zero-emissions at any point in the future. (credit: Richard Newstead/Getty Images) On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that by 2030, half of all new cars and light trucks should be zero-emissions vehicles—a mix of battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid EVs, […]
Enlarge (credit: Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine/Flickr) The US Environmental Protection Agency announced a rule Monday that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the potent greenhouse gases that are widely used as refrigerants. Though HFCs aren’t intentionally emitted in the regular use of refrigerators and air conditioners, they often leak out at various phases in an […]
Enlarge / Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. (credit: Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images) The Trump administration effectively muffled scientific staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency when it rewrote automobile pollution rules, the agency’s watchdog said. When drafting fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution rules for cars and light trucks, former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt […]
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Kienzle / AFP / Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency will be issuing revised fuel economy standards by the end of July, said new EPA Administrator Michael Regan, rewriting Trump-era limits that dictate emissions limits for cars and light trucks through the 2026 model year. The goal with the revised standards, he […]