It was a remarkable spectacle, writes Damian Kahya: MPs trying to get straight answers out of VW's top man in the UK over the 'dieselgate' scandal. Of course our cars gave false test results. But who would ever believe those stupid tests anyway? How many people died from all the extra pollution? None! There was no pollution!
… No pollution? No deaths? Who does VW think it's … How many people died from all the extra pollution? None! There was no pollution! The Managing Director of Volkswagen …
The UK's official agency for car pollution testing has taken £80 million from the auto industry in ten years, a Greenpeace investigation reveals, while its senior staff and engineers have a 'revolving door' relationship with car makers.
… Car pollution regulator's auto industry millions … Energydesk | 12th October 2015 News Pollution Health Corporations Regulation UK … The UK's official agency for car pollution testing has taken £80 million from …
China's 2015 carbon emissions fell for the second year running, by an amount equal to all of Poland's, while total power consumption increased, writes Lauri Myllyvirta. Credit goes to the massive expansion in renewable energy, with a record-breaking 47GW of wind and solar capacity added.
… This is now China's second year of declining pollution. As reported last year , 2014 … any country ever. Airpocalypse. The war on pollution continued to impact industry, and … be amplified following the horrendous air pollution episodes Beijing experienced this …
As Greece prepares for its referendum, Takis Grigoriou takes Greece to task for its highly polluting lignite power sector, its ditching of a successful solar program in favour of more coal, the minimal insulation in its buildings that locks in high fuel bills, and Syriza's failure to tackle these issues. The good news? Greece's latest €1.4bn coal project looks like going unfunded.
… in Europe. According to a 2013 report , air pollution from PPC's lignite units cause more …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… Area. Coal's longer term issues - from pollution to profitablity (lack of) Burning … mercury amd other toxins. Industrial pollution, most of from coal burning, is … air quality often worse than Beijing's with pollution 10 times higher than WHO limits. …
China has just recorded its first fall in emissions from burning fossil fuels in 15 years, writes Lauri Myllyvirta. The sharp decline has surprised analysts, and reflects the fast growing proportion of renewables in the country's power supply.
… to control coal use, spurred by the air pollution crisis, along with policies to … to be moving away from plans to reduce pollution in urban areas by gasifying coal in … China's energy targets for 2020 and the air pollution action plans for 2017 . For the …
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed the massive efforts of global food and drink giant Coca Cola to defeat popular proposals to require deposits on single-use plastic bottles, writes Maeve McClenaghan. In fact, deposit schemes are working fine in many countries in which the company operates - it's a simple case of corporate profit before environment, oceans and wildlife.
… Energydesk | 2nd February 2017 News Waste Pollution Corporations Politics UK EU Scotland …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
… million people die per year from fossil fuel pollution)" . He said that this was within his … the outset, including the need to address pollution problems arising from fossil fuel …
Indian coal firm Adani is struggling to finance its proposed mega coal mine in Australia's Galilee Basin, write Marina Lou & Christine Ottery, as promised government support evaporates and a major investor looks set to pull out.
… If India follows China's lead in tackling air pollution from burning coal - which as … of its strategy to rid itself of heavy air pollution . Apart from the five-year low price … is also likely increase urban and industrial pollution into the coastal environment and …
When Prime Minister Theresa May went to Brussels to hand in her 'Article 50' Brexit notice, she was also pursuing a separate, covert objective, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Leaked papers show that the UK was lobbying to gut new EU rules and targets on renewable energy and energy efficiency - even though they will only come into force after Brexit.
… fight back, Britain could become an offshore pollution haven where the environment is in … thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, according to data compiled by …
Barring a miracle Marco Rubio is set to be Trumped in the Republican primary tomorrow in Florida, his home state, putting an effective end to his campaign. But it's not for want of support from one of the US's biggest frackers, Devon energy, and its politically active CEO Larry Nichols. And with or without Rubio, Nichols's influence on the red states' energy policy is only going to get bigger.
… massively overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by natural gas extraction in … to criticize what it regards as flawed pollution studies, but also seismic research …
A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales, writes Guy Shrubsole - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
… But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, …
Between 2011 and 2016 the UK's export finance agency UKEF provided £109m to underwrite exports of equipment to coal mines in Russia, writes Lawrence Carter - despite the agency's commitment not to support 'investment in dirty fossil-fuel energy production'. And that's just a fraction of the £6.9 billion UKEF has lavished on the corrupt, polluting sector since 2000, while it was meant to be backing the clean energy technologies of the future.
Leaked: UK £7 billion export credit for fossil fuel industry violates 'clean energy' pledge Lawrence Carter Greenpeace Energydesk | 16th May 2017 News Finance Politics Fossil Fuels Climate Change UK …
As Shell's Polar Pioneer drilling rig sails from Seattle into the north Pacific, Christine Ottery discovers that US federal regulators had serious concerns about the company's safety equipment designed to contain any oil spill.
… June 2015 News Arctic Oil Energy Corporations Pollution shell-no-cut.jpg As Shell's Polar …
New reports show the huge potential of renewables in Southern Europe to rekindle prosperity, writes Helle Abelvik-Lawson, using clean, low cost energy from wind, solar and geothermal sources backed up with pumped storage hydro, displacing dirty lignite and oil fired generation.
… jobs and free electricity Greece could tackle pollution and energy poverty by increasing …
As presidential contenders gather in Iowa for the beginning of the party selection season, they may have noticed a lot of wind turbines, writes Zachary Davies Boren. And if they have any sense, they will find only nice things to say about them. Wind supplies 30% of the state's power, more than any other US state, and Iowans are all for it. Ted Cruz, mind your words!
Politicians take note: Iowa is the US's most wind-powered state - and everyone loves it! Zachary Boren Greenpeace Energydesk | 30th January 2016 Comment Energy Wind Politics Finance USA …
Last week's Bonn negotiations saw the world move closer to a climate agreement at COP21 in Paris, writes Ruth Davis. The current text includes important proposals on climate finance; accelerated decarbonisation of the global economy; and a 5-year cycle of ever higher national emissions targets.
… setting out a pathway towards much tougher pollution cuts in future. The original draft …
Leaked documents show that Natural England, the official wildlife agency, is to increase its income from 'discretionary chargeable advice' to developers and landowners, writes EMMA HOWARD - while also failing to prosecute wildlife crime or challenge damaging developments.
… EU rules in the fight against air and water pollution, and climate change, are pursued …