Category Archives: Environment
Utah’s Arches to require timed tickets as visitation swells
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors to get timed entry tickets during its high season next year, the second Utah park to implement such a system as visitation
Navy blames Hawaii water contamination on jet fuel spill
HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy believes that contaminated tap water that went to Hawaii military households came from a one-time spill of jet fuel last month and was not caused by a leak from aging underground fuel storage tanks above
US approves Indigenous name change for Colorado mountain
DENVER (AP) — A federal panel has approved renaming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 19th century, part of a broader campaign to replace derogatory place
Cyprus issues 2nd offshore drilling license to ExxonMobil
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — ExxonMobil and partner Qatar Energy expanded their stake in potential oil and gas deposits off Cyprus by signing a deal with the east Mediterranean island nation Friday for a second exploration license in waters that Turkey
Mandate to enforce EV sales quotas needed by end of next year: Guilbeault
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he wants a national mandate that would force auto dealers to sell a certain number of electric vehicles to be in place by the end of next year. Road transportation accounts for one-fifth of
By the Numbers: A look at electric vehicle sales in Canada
OTTAWA — Canadians bought more electric vehicles in the last two years than in the previous eight combined. But those sales are uneven across the provinces. 110,518: Total number of new battery-electric and plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles sold in Can...
B.C. floods cause at least $450 million in damage, Insurance Bureau of Canada reports
VANCOUVER — The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates the insured damage caused by flooding in British Columbia last month at $450 million, calling it the "most costly severe weather event in the province's history." However, the overall costs are expec...
Judge: Justice must pay $2.5M for environmental violations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has lost another costly court ruling over his coal companies' environmental violations. A federal judge in Virginia ruled
Former B.C. TV weather forecaster predicts climate catastrophe and hunger for UN
OTTAWA — As a transplanted British Columbian, Jesse Mason views the extreme and shifting weather patterns unfolding in his native province with a high level of concern. First, there was the heat dome that caused record-breaking temperatures this summer...
California pushes composting to lower food waste emissions
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January.