Airlines pledged to buy carbon offsets to slow warming, but that’s not enough

Enlarge / An Airbus SE A380 aircraft operated by Qantas Airways Ltd. approaches to land at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (credit: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Air travel is a major source of carbon pollution, and currently, there’s no real way to stop it (short of grounding flights). Jet […]

August green-car demand flat as Toyota lag offsets U.S. gains

After falling almost 10 percent from a year earlier in July, August green-car demand in the U.S. just about broke even, as lagging sales by Toyota offset gains by Ford and General Motors. U.S. green-car sales fell less than 2 percent from a year earlier to about 40,000 units, while specifically plug-in vehicle sales were […]