Category Archives: Environment
Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainier
Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says. And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scientists said.
Yukon’s record snowpack adds potential for flooding during ice breakup: territory
WHITEHORSE — Yukon's snow survey shows record-high snowpacks in many of the basins the territory monitors. The bulletin says eight of 11 basins have the highest snowpack ever recorded, while the remaining three have above-average snow. The Yukon gove...
B.C. mayors dealing with flooding and wildfire damage call on feds to deliver funds
VANCOUVER — British Columbia mayors whose communities were devastated by last year's flooding and wildfires want the federal government to deliver billions of dollars in promised funding as soon as possible. Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said he was amo...
Farms, fish on dry California-Oregon border see scant water
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Farms that rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake on the California-Oregon border, along with a Native American tribe fighting to protect fragile salmon, will both receive extremely limited amounts of water thi...
California utility to pay $55 million for massive wildfires
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation's largest utility, has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires sparked by its aging Northern California power lines and submit to five
Discovery of radioactive liquid pauses work at US nuke dump
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An area at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico was evacuated over the weekend after workers handling a shipping container discovered a small amount of radioactive liquid inside it.
Trudeau wants more electric vehicles across Canada; does not rule out nuclear power
VICTORIA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he wants to make it easier for more Canadians to drive electric vehicles and he isn't ruling out nuclear power as a cleaner source of energy. Trudeau said electric vehicles help cut pollution, but
GOP’s energy promises face limits in Pa. governor’s race
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican Bill McSwain pledges to be a pro-energy governor by “turning on the spigot of natural gas.” Another hopeful, Dave White, says he wants Pennsylvania “to be the energy capital of the world.” A third candidate,
Indigenous leaders, protesters gather in Vancouver to oppose Trans Mountain pipeline
VANCOUVER — Protesters against the federally-owned Trans Mountain pipeline gathered outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday to show the government and investors that opposition to the project is still strong and they believe funding it would be a...
Maryland Gov. Hogan vetoes bill to expand abortion access
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a measure Friday that would expand access to abortion in the state by ending a restriction that only physicians can provide them and requiring most insurance plans to cover abortion care