U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would seek standardized disclosures of climate-related business risks and greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. A 60-day comment period still is ahead, as supporters and opponents line up.
In appeals court filing, Justice Dept. says Louisiana judge's Feb. 14 injunction of metric is "illogical, unreasonable, and unlawful," and has halted work on oil and gas permits, NEPA reviews and rulemaking.
Energy-efficiency advocates are hopeful that a new Biden administration coalition to promote and strengthen building performance standards (BPS) could accelerate federal, state and local efforts to reduce carbon emissions from buildings.
New Georgetown University research analyzed how surface transportation projects chosen for $599 billion of the total $1-trillion bill could cut greenhouse gas emissions, or boost them significantly.
With big rise set in Canada’s carbon tax, oil and gas firms are responding to government request for proposals to build larger CCS and green energy projects.
The California Air Resource Board will have 18 months to develop a strategy for the state's cement sector to reach net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2045.
Reaching the Paris Agreement’s greenhouse-gas-emission reduction targets to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100 is possible but extremely difficult without huge commitments and major actions of G20 nations and others, says a new study.
House-Senate committee measures would have up to 10 times more impact than the Energy Act of 2020, says analysis, as Chevron says it will grow lower carbon energy businesses by $10 billion through 2028.