greenhouse gas policy

If Los Angeles could eliminate coal from its mix of energy sources, implement a myriad of measures including increasing the efficiency of natural gas-fired power plants, and ensure all residents have access to sustainable transportation options, the city could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below 1990 levels.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed four lawsuits claiming the EPA has no authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Nature News reported that Mexico joins the United Kingdom as the only two countries to have passed legally binding carbon emission reduction goals.

In the Southwest, California and Colorado are best prepared for the water-related impacts of climate change, while Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah are largely unprepared, according to a new report from the National Resources Defense Council.

On the heels of a great victory for the California Air Resources Board (ARB) with a superior court ruling giving the go-ahead to implement its cap-and-trade system, a federal district judge in Fresno has now ruled that California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard violates the U.S. Constitution.

With the Kyoto Protocol—an international agreement among 37 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—set to expire next December, negotiations at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa this week centered around the question of whether countries will accep

The EPA just announced that it will miss its September 30 deadline for issuing new rules on greenhouse gas emissions.