Climate

Freight railroads and climate change

Over 50 corporations and nine countries have pledged to switch to materials made from processes that produce little to no carbon.

Share of adults who say it is important to them that their country shifts away from fossil fuels

Environmental Defense Fund tells ports, shippers to ‘act now or pay later’ for climate change

Impacts of climate change; extreme weather exacerbated supply chain crisis

Check out the key initiatives in the plan here!

TLDR: Summary of this week’s Transport Day announcements from the U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland (shipping, aviation and ZEVs, oh my!), and a nice, long list of all the acronyms […]

Pilot program could be rolled out nationwide if successful

Updating climate normals can help people plan for changes in commodity production and demand, impacting freight capacity down the road.

The burning of natural gas instead of coal offers important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollution, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and renewed economic development in gas-rich regions of the country.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB), through chairperson Mary Nichols, has revealed the state’s interest in banning vehicles that produce carbon emissions, Bloomberg News reports. Governor Jerry Brown has called Nichols to ask why the CARB has not moved forward on this idea, Nichols told Bloomberg.