Category Archives: Environment
Illinois chemical plant explosion, fires prompt evacuations
CHICAGO (AP) — An explosion at a northern Illinois chemical plant Monday morning sparked massive fires that sent flames and huge plumes of thick black smoke high into the air and debris raining onto the ground, prompting evacuations.
GM exec: Company to announce more battery plants this week
DETROIT (AP) — The president of General Motors says his company plans to announce more U.S. battery factories later this week.
Minnesota court affirms approval of Line 3 oil pipeline
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed state regulators' key approvals of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, in a dispute that drew over 1,000 protesters to northern Minnesota last week.
N.L. oil workers gather in last-ditch effort to save Terra Nova offshore oilfield
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — About 100 oil workers gathered outside Newfoundland and Labrador’s legislature Monday, a day before Suncor Energy was expected to announce whether the Terra Nova offshore oilfield will be shut down for good. Though union leaders and ...
From vaccine sharing to climate, G-7 talks yield agreements
FALMOUTH, England (AP) — The Group of Seven wealthy democracies have wrapped up their first face-to-face summit in two years at a seaside resort in southwest England. The leaders of the G-7 — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United
Old-growth logging opponents launch hunger strike as arrests continue at Fairy Creek
VICTORIA — Opponents of old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island say they will stage a hunger strike in Vancouver until they can meet with British Columbia Premier John Horgan and Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal environment and climate change mi...
Calls grow for action on Ontario’s thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells
The putrid smell makes Paula Jongerden sick to her stomach. It comes from a natural gas well about 300 metres from her home near Delhi, Ont., that erupts at least twice a week. A road sign on Forestry Farm Road, where she
The Latest: Biden arrives in Belgium ahead of NATO summit
The Latest on the Group of Seven nations meeting being held in England: BRUSSELS — President Joe Biden has arrived in
Swiss narrowly reject tax hike to fight climate change
GENEVA (AP) — Exit polls on Sunday indicated that Swiss voters appear to have narrowly rejected a proposed “carbon dioxide law” that would have hiked fees and taxes on fuels that produce greenhouse gases.
G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations
CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations staked their claim Sunday to leading the world out of the coronavirus pandemic and crisis, pledging more than 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations, vowing
