Photo: Google By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Due to extremely high pollution rates in the city, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced late Tuesday, March 29, that the capital’s Day-without-a-Car (hoy no circula) program will apply to more cars on Wednesday, March 30, including some with 0 and 00 holograms, with additional restrictions to help improve air quality. The special
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico now ranks in first place among Latin American countries when it comes to air pollution caused by electricity generation, according to Cepalstat, a data and statistics platform of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Mexico emissions from electricity are 2.2 times higher than those of Brazil, three times those of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the first quarter of 2021, Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) released 50.8 more waste gas into the environment compared to the same period in 2020, reaching the highest average in 12 years, according to the government’s own sources. On average, in the January-to-March 2021 period, 712 million cubic feet of natural
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), as mandated by a court order, authorized a reduction in gasoline’s ethanol content, which acts as an oxygenating agent, from 10 percent to 5.8 percent, to be implemented on March 10, which experts say will raise the gasoline’s pollution level. The Mexican Association for Sustainable Mobility recommends the use of 10 percent
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Due to extremely high pollution rates in the city — a considerable stretch during the supposed covid-19 lockdown — Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced late Wednesday, Nov. 11, that the capital’s Day-without-a-Car (hoy no circula) program will apply “doubly” on Thursday, Nov. 12, with additional restrictions to help improve air quality. Under these
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XINHUA “I was surprised by the service,” Chilean Cristóbal Velásquez recently said about the Chinese ride-hailing app Didi, which in a short time has gained a firm foothold in Latin America. “While it’s a relatively new app (here), it has spread quickly in Santiago and throughout the whole country,” offering a “safe and economical” alternative to standard ride-sharing services, Velásquez
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Every now and then, more often than not, the name of Mexico’s fourth-wealthiest man, Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco, dominates the media with controversial reports. In fact, at the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat), there are a myriad of files open charging Larrea with crimes of pollution. And if we gauge the amount of media space devoted
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