emissions

Toyota's commercial truck company will pay $1.6 billion for faking emissions tests

1:57pm January 16, 2025

Hino Motors will plead guilty to submitting false emissions data to regulators for more than 100,000 heavy-duty trucks. The company will pay an array of fines, and fix some affected vehicles for free.

Drought Pushes Great Salt Lake To Lowest Levels On Record

As the Great Salt Lake dries up, it's also emitting millions of tons of CO2

6:00am July 28, 2024

A new study found that the drying Great Salt Lake in Utah is now a major source of the gas emissions that are causing the climate to warm.

This grill of a Ram truck is on display at the Pittsburgh Auto Show on Feb. 15, 2018. The Department of Justice released new details of a settlement with engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. on Wednesday that includes a mandatory recall of 600,000 Ram trucks.

Environment

600,000 Ram trucks to be recalled under settlement in emissions cheating scandal

3:46pm January 10, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Department of Justice released details of a settlement with engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. that includes the mandatory recall. Cummins' total penalty for the violations tops $2 billion.

The James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant in Adamsville, Alabama is a coal-fired facility. In 2023 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.9% because less of the country's electricity came from plants like this one.

U.S. cut climate pollution in 2023, but not fast enough to limit global warming

5:00am January 10, 2024

by Jeff Brady

Climate-warming greenhouse gasses in the U.S. declined 1.9% last year, but that's only a third of what's needed to meet Paris climate change goals.

An auto emissions machine in a car garage.

Transportation

New bill would roll back emissions testing requirements in North Carolina

3:58pm March 27, 2023

by David Ford

Senate Bill 341 proposes to reduce most car inspections to every other year rather than annually and eliminate emission tests in all counties but Mecklenburg.

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Residents in southern Malawi repair a home destroyed by heavy rain from Cyclone Freddy. Climate change is causing cyclones and hurricanes to get more intense and dangerous.

Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

1:45pm March 20, 2023

by Rebecca Hersher

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and immediately will save lives, livelihoods and ecosystems around the world, scientists say. And there are lots of ways to go about it.

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Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the South Island of New Zealand on Oct. 8, 2018.

Environment

New Zealand angers its farmers by proposing taxing cow burps

12:06am October 11, 2022

by The Associated Press

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. Farmers quickly condemned the plan.

N.C. A&T receives $10M for clean energy research

11:09am August 29, 2022

by Neal Charnoff

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received a $10 million grant to open a clean energy research center.

Environment

HanesBrands reports progress on 2030 climate goals

3:06pm May 12, 2022

by Paul Garber

Winston-Salem-based HanesBrands Inc. is making progress on sustainability goals the company hopes to reach by the end of the decade, but getting there will take overcoming some challenges.

Environment

NC Takes Steps On Carbon Cap, Multi-State Pollution Effort

2:57pm July 13, 2021

by Associated Press, Gary Robertson

A state regulatory panel agreed Tuesday to develop rules for North Carolina to meet proposed overall reductions of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and to join a multi-state effort to accomplish it.