• Climate Change

Warren’s New Plan Would Punish Exxon for Lying to Regulators

• 2020
• climate action
• Elizabeth Warren
• Exxon

Yesterday, presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan (!) calling for companies who have misled federal regulators to be prosecuted under a new corporate perjury law.

She also singled out Exxon as her example, tying in climate change to her signature anti-corruption platform.

• Air

Texas chemical explosion kills worker, 3rd plant explosion in 3 weeks

• explosion
• Exxon
• Houstin
• oil and gas
• petrochemicals
• Texas

Yesterday in Crosby, Texas (about 25 miles northeast of Houston) a tank holding a flammable chemical caught fire at a KMCO chemical plant, killing one worker, critically injuring two others and sending panicked employees fleeing over a fence to safety. This was the third explosion in the petrochemical industry in the past 3 weeks (the […]

• Sustainability

EVs for Show at the Auto Show in Detroit

• Audi
• auto show
• Cadillac
• cars
• Detroit
• electric
• EVs
• Exxon
• Ford
• gas
• GM
• hybrid
• Nissan
• Toyota

The major U.S. and foreign auto companies are racing to catch up to Tesla in the EV market, and are using this year’s auto show in Detroit to make the PR point, but there are few vehicles ready for market yet.   According to the AP, one of the reasons is that SUVs and trucks make up 72% of the new vehicles sold in the U.S. last month, compared to 49% in December 2012.  Thus, these new EVs will need to be SUVs, according to Axios.  But only two of the vehicles scheduled to be “rolled out” at the Detroit auto show are electrified, AP notes, and neither is available for sale yet.