Category Archives: Environment
Big greenhouse gas state taking biggest climate step yet
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than two years after he started work on it, Gov. Tom Wolf is set to enact the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change, making Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt
Swath of boreal forest twice the size of Toronto to be protected in northern Ontario
OTTAWA — The largest private land conservation project in Canadian history is unfolding in northern Ontario. The Nature Conservancy of Canada spent the last year negotiating the purchase of 1,450 square kilometres of the boreal forest near Hearst, Ont....
Ontario NDP, Liberals make tree-planting election promises
TORONTO — Ontario's New Democrats and Liberals are making Earth Day promises to plant trees if their parties are elected to form government in June. The NDP says it will establish a "Youth Climate Corps" that will help the party meet
Climate progress remains elusive for Biden on Earth Day
SEATTLE (AP) — With a backdrop of flowering trees, it was a setting fit for the signing of major environmental legislation. Even Seattle’s notorious clouds parted as President Joe Biden stepped up to speak Friday.
California hikes costs for flood protections in farm country
Climate change is worsening the already significant threat of flooding in California’s farm country, and state officials said Thursday that as much as $30 billion may be needed over three decades to protect the region, an increase from five years
US military OKs prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense plans to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho. The
Electric vehicle popularity grows in 2021 but still not on track for federal targets
OTTAWA — Electric vehicle sales grew almost 60 per cent last year but they need to pick up the pace even more to hit the new federal sales mandates expected by the end of this year. Statistics Canada released the latest
Ottawa making good on pledge to unilaterally protect Quebec caribou: minister
MONTREAL — Ottawa is moving forward with plans to unilaterally protect Quebec caribou after the province failed to meet a deadline to provide an acceptable proposal, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Thursday. Guilbeault had given Que...
Report: Fire training, equipment lacking at US nuclear dump
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has major issues in fire training and firefighting vehicles, with its fleet in disrepair after years of neglect, according to an investigation by the U.S. Energy Depa...
Ottawa feared repeat of 2020 rail blockades before B.C. pipeline arrests last fall
Federal officials feared a repeat of the 2020 rail blockades one month before RCMP enforced an injunction last fall against protests that cut off access to a pipeline construction site in northern British Columbia. There was also concern that people f...