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Green groups on collision course with global populists over pollution cuts
The global environmental movement set itself on a collision course with populists from Australia to France and the U.S. over an agenda of ever-tightening curbs on pollution. Fresh from endorsing rules to implement the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, diplomats, along with pressure groups ...
U.S. Interior Secretary Zinke resigns after citing 'vicious' attacks
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, facing federal investigations into his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest, will be leaving the administration at year's end, President Donald Trump said Saturday. In his resignation letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Zinke said "vicious and politically ...
Nations at U.N. climate talks in Poland back universal emissions rules
After two weeks of bruising negotiations, officials from almost 200 countries agreed Saturday on universal, transparent rules that will govern efforts to cut emissions and curb global warming. The deal agreed upon at U.N. climate talks in Poland enables countries to put into action the ...
Departing California fire chief: State must adapt to new, all-year wildfire norm
California's increasingly deadly and destructive wildfires have become so unpredictable that government officials should consider banning home construction in vulnerable areas, the state's top firefighter says. Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Director Ken Pimlott will leave his job Friday after 30 years with the ...
Arctic's record warming driving 'broad change' in environment, U.S. agency study says
Global warming is heating the Arctic at a record pace, driving broad environmental changes across the planet, including extreme storms in the United States and Europe, a major U.S. scientific report said Tuesday. Persistent heat records have assaulted the fragile Arctic for each of the ...
Climate talks hit standoff as battle over bid to block key science report looms
A diplomatic standoff over a single word could set the stage for a bigger showdown during the second half of this year's U.N. climate summit. Negotiators took time out Sunday to rest after the first week of talks ended on a sour note the previous ...
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro fills out Cabinet with rightist environment chief
Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime climate-change skeptic, has named a rightist lawyer with a contentious background to be environment minister in the country whose Amazon rainforest is under threat. As with all his major announcements, Bolsonaro used Twitter to appoint Ricardo de Aquino Salles ...
Trump to roll back Obama-era carbon rule, opening door for new coal plants
The Trump administration took aim at two Obama-era environmental policies on Thursday to boost the oil and coal industries, proposing to open up a wildlife habitat to drilling and mining and to remove hurdles to the construction of coal-fired power plants. The moves, part of ...
California became the first state in the nation to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar powered, following a vote by the Building Standards Commission. The unanimous action on Wednesday finalizes a previous vote by the Energy Commission and fulfills a decade-old goal ...
The answer is blowing in the wind: Shipping firms eye high-tech sails in bid to go green
As the shipping industry faces pressure to cut climate-altering greenhouse gases, one answer is blowing in the wind. European and U.S. tech companies, including one backed by airplane maker Airbus, are pitching futuristic sails to help cargo ships harness the free and endless supply of ...
U.S. to ease oil drilling controls protecting imperiled bird but claim move will save them
The Trump administration moved forward Thursday with plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling and other activities across millions of acres in the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird species. Land management documents released by the ...
China's unbridled export of coal power seen as imperiling climate goals
Even as China struggles to curb domestic coal-fired power and the deadly pollution it produces, the world's top carbon emitter is aggressively exporting the same troubled technology to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, an investigation by AFP has shown. The carbon dioxide emissions from ...
