Making the global switch from climate-altering fossil fuels to renewables by 2050 would require an extra $1 trillion (880 billion euros) per year, but the bill will be covered by lower energy costs, a Greenpeace report said Monday. On top of some 600 billion euros per year already earmarked by governments and businesses for investment in renewables, the extra funding would be needed to build enough green energy generators to
The CEO of Volkswagen apologized Sunday after the Environmental Protection Agency said the German automaker skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars.
AP () — — VW chief says he is “deeply sorry” after EPA finds company violated US clean air standards.
Africa’s biggest oil producer — is finally “domesticating” the refining of crude into products, thus improving its energy security and ending a reliance on costly imports. The talk is of job creation, national pride and the chance to help revive an economy badly hurt by the fall in global oil prices as well as providing fuel for the increasing demands of a growing population. “To give up on the refineries
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that Volkswagen intentionally skirted clean air laws by using a piece of software.
The cars, all built in the last seven years, include a device programmed to detect when they are undergoing official emissions testing, the EPA said, adding that the cars only turn on full emissions control systems during that testing.
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG faces penalties up to $18 billion after being accused of designing software for diesel cars that deceives regulators measuring toxic emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday. “Put simply, these cars contained software that turns off emissions controls when driving normally and turns them on when the car is undergoing an emissions test,” Cynthia Giles, an enforcement officer at the EPA, told reporters
The Environmental Protection Agency says nearly 500,000 Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars built in the past seven year are intentionally violating clean air standards by using software that evades EPA emissions …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and California environmental regulators said on Friday they are investigating whether Volkswagen AG deliberately circumvented clean air rules on diesel cars. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Volkswagen allegedly used software to circumvent emissions testing of certain air pollutants in Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009 to 2015. (Reporting by Timothy Gardner, Patrick Rucker and Bernie Woodall in Detroit; Editing by Eric Walsh)
It’s a drastic, painful, potentially fatal tactic more associated with third-world political movements calling attention to brutal regimes, or history lessons about legendary protest leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez. Leaders say they launched the strike because city leaders, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have repeatedly turned a deaf ear to their complaints about the fate of Walter H. Dyett High School in the historic, majority-black Bronzeville neighborhood. Emanuel’s administration,