Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. The Bao Steel mill in the morning, in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. The previous article discussed global and regional carbon ...

Over the last decade, humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) have stabilized after a period of huge growth. Average growth is now down to just 0.6% per year, compared to 2% per year in the ...

The most effective ones tend to combine several emissions-cutting strategies, not a stand-alone approach, according to an examination of 1,500 policies globally. By Austyn Gaffney First, the good news ...

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels inched higher in 2024 and are estimated to set a record, further jeopardizing the planet’s prospect of meeting a key goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to ...

Methane concentrations in Earth's atmosphere increased at record speed over the past five years. At least two-thirds of annual methane emissions now come from human activities, including fossil fuel ...

On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation’s carbon emissions in the previous year. Any drop in emissions puts us on a path that would avoid some of the ...

The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it had been prioritizing, along with state governments, since the 1970s. As a scholar of how vehicle ...

Hop into a car, hit the gas, and off you go—seems simple, right? Well, not quite. Every time a gas-powered vehicle is started, its internal combustion engine burns gasoline for energy and emits ...

As the first national cap and trade program in the United States, the ARP provides a flexible and cost-effective approach to reduce pollution. The program requires power plants to reduce emissions ...