Category: ARTICLES_REPORTS_US_EMISSIONS En_Fossil_Mn

America’s carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in eight years, according to a preliminary estimate published Tuesday.

In 1974, the economist William Nordhaus described the transition from a “cowboy economy” to a “spaceship economy.” In the former, he wrote, “we could afford to use our resources profligately,” and “the environment could be…

The warnings around climate change now have additional data backing them up: carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. were up last year.

The news comes after the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) concluded that 2018 was Earth's 4th-warmest on record, with the past 4 years serving as the planet's hottest seen since instrument records began in…

Coal is declining, but natural gas is growing.

The uptick follows several years of relatively flat emissions, underscoring the urgency of climate action.

On the campaign trail and as president, Donald Trump has expressed his skepticism about global warming. So it was a bit of a surprise when a reader asked us to check a statement issued by…