Coty Inc. says its new Gucci perfume, Where My Heart Beats, will be “the first globally distributed fragrance manufactured using alcohol from 100% recycled carbon emissions.”

The Royal Bank of Canada, which touts its commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, eclipses JPMorgan Chase as the banking world’s largest funder of fossil fuel projects.

Sea levels are rising dramatically faster than expected along the United States’ southeastern coastline and the Gulf of Mexico.

The EPA proposes a major strengthening of federal clean-car standards and another rule to limit emissions from heavy-duty trucks and buses.

Confused by San Francisco’s dense fog, five Google self-driving Waymo cars stop in the middle of a residential street, blocking traffic.

Walmart says it will install EV fast-charging facilities at thousands of stores (in addition to 1,300 existing chargers) by 2030, making charging available to the 90 percent of Americans who live within 10 miles of a Walmart or Sam’s Club.

The British Parking Association warns that because of the extreme weight of large electric vehicles (the Tesla Model S is nearly 5,000 pounds, the GMC Hummer EV 9,000 pounds), some older parking garages are in danger of collapse.

A fire at a plastics recycling plant in Richmond, Indiana, releases clouds of toxic chemicals and forces the evacuation of 2,000 people. A bill on Governor Eric Holcomb’s desk would promote the burning of plastic waste.

The owner of a carbon dioxide pipeline that exploded near Satartia, Mississippi, in 2020 is fined $3 million.

Justin Pearson, a Black Tennessee state representative who once helped block an oil pipeline through his neighborhood in Southwest Memphis, is reinstated to the House after being expelled by white Republican lawmakers. 

Eighteen condors in California and Utah have died after contracting the highly infectious avian influenza, and five others are undergoing treatment for the disease.

Giant saguaro cacti in Arizona are not regenerating fast enough to survive.

In order to maintain a functioning Colorado River, the Interior Department proposes that Arizona, Nevada, and California equally cut their water allotments by as much as a quarter.

The Biden administration gives final approval to the TransWest Express Transmission Project, a 732-mile power line that will bring clean wind power from Wyoming to Nevada and then on to California.

The United States’ 34 largest Bitcoin mines use as much energy as 3 million households.

California’s Lake Tahoe is clearer than it’s been in 40 years.