Tag: Air pollution
Behind production of a top-selling bourbon, push to go green
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The process of making fine whiskey involves aging spirits to a golden brown, but a bourbon producing giant is going green...
Germany vows to boost cycling as part of climate effort
BERLIN — Germany, home to the Autobahn and a powerful motor industry, wants its citizens to spend less time driving and more time cycling...
Biden aims for momentum as US returns to climate fight
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a global summit Thursday...
In Biden climate show, watch for cajoling, conflict, pathos
It won't rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever worsening global warming in a two-day...
Also roaring back from pandemic; earth warming emissions
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Global warming emissions are expected to spike this year as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and economies begin...
AP sources: Biden to pledge halving greenhouse gases by 2030
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030 as he convenes as a...
2 Italian managers indicted in Fiat Chrysler emissions probe
DETROIT — Two Italian managers in Fiat Chrysler's diesel engine program have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit in a widening...
Reports: UK to toughen climate target before Biden summit
LONDON — The U.K. government will set itself a more ambitious climate target, pledging to reduce carbon emissions by three-quarters of their 1990 levels...
India’s electric vehicles face practical, technical hurdles
NEW DELHI — H.S. Panno, an independent contractor living in a spacious two-story penthouse in New Delhi, had his doubts when he bought his...
Judge: BP’s Indiana refinery violated soot emission limits
WHITING, Ind. — A BP refinery in northwest Indiana repeatedly violated air pollution standards for soot emissions between 2015 and 2018, a federal judge...