EMISSIONS
Program to get fuel from plants just failed. Here's how
The nation's most ambitious program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline has failed despite a bipartisan, 11-year effort that has cost taxpayers and companies billions.
John Fialka
Reporter
John was the founding editor of Climatewire. He's now a reporter working on special projects, based in Denver, Colo. He's a former reporter with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered a wide variety of issues for the Washington bureau. He also served abroad as the lead reporter for the Journal in the first Gulf War and in the London bureau, during the waning days of the Cold War. He has written four books and is the co-founder of SOAR!, a group that has raised more than $10 million to help retired Catholic sisters and brothers.
Latest Stories
GEOENGINEERING
Experts grapple with side effects of shading Earth
A new study of a proposed geoengineering technique to artificially shade the Earth shows that troublesome side effects could be minimized by injecting particles into the atmosphere from points on the planet farther away from the equator.
DROUGHT
Heavy monsoons could ease fires, crop problems in Southwest
The National Weather Service predicts the arrival of a wetter-than-normal monsoon season over the Southwest in early July will ease an exceptional drought in the Four Corners area of the Southwest that has caused widespread wildfires along with livestock and crop problems.
OIL AND GAS
Industry slams 'alarmist' methane study
An oil and gas trade group is attacking environmentalists' study that suggests the industry is emitting far more methane than previously thought.
METHANE
More gas is leaking than previously estimated — study
A new study by the Environmental Defense Fund and a team of university scientists estimates that the U.S. oil and gas industry emits 13 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere each year, losing $2 billion annually from over 400 leak-prone drilling and processing facilities.