Category Archives: Environment
EU draft on financing nuclear and gas plants raises ire
BRUSSELS (AP) — Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain part of the bloc's path to a climate-friendly future came under immediate criticism over the weekend from both environmentalists and some governing political p...
Lawsuit seeks to block 2 geothermal power plants in Nevada
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction of two geothermal plants in northern Nevada’s high desert that they say will destroy a sacred hot springs and could push a
Reports on the future of coal mining submitted to Alberta government: energy minister
EDMONTON — Alberta's energy minister says she has received two reports that will determine the future of coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountain foothills and eastern slopes. Sonya Savage has issued a statement saying the independent coal policy c...
US affirms new interpretation for high-level nuclear waste
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste’s radioactivity rather than how it was produced.
New Mexico tribes concerned about plan to power nuclear lab
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Indigenous leaders are concerned about a proposed multimillion-dollar transmission line that would cross what they consider sacred lands. The transmission line
New Mexico tribes concerned about plan to power nuclear lab
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Indigenous leaders are concerned about a proposed multimillion-dollar transmission line that would cross what they consider sacred lands. The transmission line
Bringing home the bacon tops new California laws in 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It's not often that bacon leads a roundup of new laws taking effect with the New Year in California. But even in progressive
Hawaii: Don’t burn Christmas trees at sacred Oahu sandbar
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's public lands agency is warning people that they face arrest if found burning Christmas trees at an oceanic sandbar. The sandbar that rests
$2.5B headed to tribes for long-standing water settlements
WASHINGTON (AP) — For over a decade, residents of the rural Fort Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona have been promised miles of pipeline that would bring clean drinking water to their communities.
Manitoba premier does not like federal carbon backstop, eyes provincial price
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is hoping to design its own carbon-pricing plan that could shift the emphasis slightly away from income-tax rebates to spending more on green-energy projects. "What I want to see is results, better results, in Manitob...
