Environment California Regulators Move to Protect the State’s Fuel Efficiency Standards The new plan would require automakers to comply with the state's more stringent greenhouse gas emissions rules despite proposed rollbacks. Emily Moon
Environment The Trump Administration Releases Its Plan to Roll Back Fuel Efficiency Standards The plan would end efforts to make cars and trucks average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025. Emily Moon
Environment The Trump Administration Is Expected to Weaken Fuel Emission Standards Next Week This move will bring up questions about the waiver that currently allows California to set its own, stricter emissions standards. Rebecca Worby
Environment California Meets Its 2020 Emissions Goal Early California reached a critical emissions reduction milestone four years earlier than expected, data released Wednesday shows. Kate Wheeling
Environment How California’s Clean Air Regulations Have Reduced Whale Strikes by Cargo Ships Rules intended to protect people from pollution are simultaneously saving the lives of whales by slowing down cargo ships, but researchers say more still needs to be done. Matthew O. Berger
Environment The EPA Plans to Weaken Fuel Emissions Standards. California Plans on Fighting Back. The effect of lax federal fuel standards on the climate fight depends largely on the fate of the California waiver. Kate Wheeling
Economics What’s the Cost of Emissions to the United States? U.S. regulators are now dinging Volkswagen for cheating on nitrogen oxides emissions tests. Data shows that officials are right to be upset. Francie Diep
News in Brief Miles Not Gallons Could Be Key to Road Upkeep Fuel economy is a great idea, unless you’re counting on the taxes that fuel sales generate to pay for something. Maybe there’s a better way … Emily Badger
Economics Yeah, It Would Be Good to Drive Less, But … A national gathering of transportation wonks try to square the circle, fitting private cars into a low-carbon economy. Emily Badger
Environment Climate Change Gridlock Emission standards will help manage rising temperatures, but the time to act is now. Erik Hayden