Environment

A sign warns of hazardous pollution.

The intersection of energy and the environment includes climate change and global warming, greenhouse gasses from energy usage, vehicle emissions, carbon limitation strategies including carbon “cap and trade” and carbon offset projects, sustainable energy usage strategies, water use and pollution related to fuel and energy production, nuclear waste disposal, mining impacts, and other environmental issues which emerge as byproducts of energy production.  Also covered are the political issues that impact the future of worldwide environmental cooperation.