But automakers can’t absorb the cost forever and will soon begin to raise new car prices, analysts say.

The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.

The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

By some distance, the research Emissions Analytics published in early 2020 claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions generated the most feedback of any subject we have tackled so far – feedback that was a mixture of surprise and scepticism — Permalien