Greenhouse Gases

The environmental non-profit estimates that recent federal oil and gas leases will produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the European Union emits in a year.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks about the city's response to climate change at Hunter's Point South Park on April 22nd, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York City.

A new study finds that substantial reductions in spending on red meat resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Once most members could agree that climate change is real, they could start talking about the real question of what to do.

Health-care professionals have brought much-needed attention to the harm that climate change can cause on human health. But the very system that has helped bring attention to climate change is also driving it.

A new report assesses the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to coal, oil, and gas on public lands.

The Trump administration is doing the opposite of what a new report says is needed to keep global climate change to a minimum.

In a draft proposal rolling back Obama-era regulations on hydrofluorocarbons, the Trump administration scrapped all references to climate change and those most affected by it.

A glacier in Antarctica gets a new name and, once more, environmental regulations are under threat.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to weaken Obama-era rules about leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

California reached a critical emissions reduction milestone four years earlier than expected, data released Wednesday shows.

No ride-hailing company has seriously addressed the real heart of the transportation problem: more trips, more miles, more greenhouse gases.

Here's why that's bad news.

The regulation would have prohibited the use of hydrofluorocarbons.

California is on pace to meet the goal of its Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter—and right now, Beijing is taking climate much more seriously than Washington is.

Where else can we cut?

How India builds its energy grid could decide the fate of humanity. Maybe we should help the country out.

Barring some monumental development that disrupts cargo shipping entirely, we’re stuck with trucking. So how can we minimize the industry’s massive environmental tolls?

The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land. The coal industry may never recover.

Researchers combine ecological and economic models to examine the benefits of growing grass as fuel.

Cities, states, and businesses—not just those world leaders in Paris—will save us from climate change. Here’s what they’re going to do.

Here are the Senate’s options for trying to muck up the international agreement made in Paris.

How to decipher the Russian president’s mystifying statements on global warming.