Category: emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog said Monday that it had opened an investigation into relaxed automotive emissions standards touted by the Trump Administration as a major victory for deregulation. The EPA inspector general said Monday that it would review the rule-making process to see if it met requirements for...

Joe Biden announced a broad environmental plan Tuesday that includes provisions to broaden the federal electric-car tax credit and revive the "Cash for Clunkers" program. "Biden will restore the full electric vehicle tax credit to incentivize the purchase of these vehicles," a statement on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's campaign...

Nevada could be the next U.S. state to join California vehicle emissions standards, as opposed to the lax standards and lack of electric-vehicle targets recently enacted by the Trump EPA. On Monday, Nevada governor Steve Sisolak announced the Clean Cars Nevada initiative, which aims to adopt new regulations leading to an increase in the number of...

Electric cars have been exempt from most attempts to regulate vehicular traffic in urban centers, but not a new London plan to create car-free zones. Cars—even those without tailpipes—will be banned from large areas of the British capital in order to create more space for pedestrians and cyclists, news network ITV reported Friday...

Back in 2009, the $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, or Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), offered $3,500 to $4,500 for older vehicles up to 25 years old regardless of the condition provided consumers replaced it with a new, more fuel-efficient one. With signals that the green-car sector in particular might be suffering at the start of the...

You know things are getting serious when oil companies move to reduce carbon emissions. Shell has joined BP in aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Don't expect the company to get out of the oil business entirely, though. "Society's expectations have shifted quickly in the debate around climate change," a Shell press release said...

In the battle between California and the Trump Administration over the state's right to set its own stricter emissions standards, General Motors sided with the President. That decision may be costing GM, according to a new poll. The majority of GM owners surveyed—regardless of party affiliation—oppose the automaker's stance on tougher...

As the nation struggles to control a lung-related pandemic, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to merely stay the course on its standards for fine particulates, produced in significant amounts by vehicles and power plants. “Based on review of the scientific literature and recommendation from our independent science...

People with the novel coronavirus, formally known as COVID-19, are more likely to die from the virus if they live in areas with high air pollution, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, updated Sunday to include the latest data, looked at 3,080 United States counties, comparing levels of...