Category Archives: Environment
Power line campaign is most expensive in Maine history
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mainers have weighed in on a number of high-profile ballot questions — casinos, universal health care, marijuana legalization, assisted suicide, abortion and same-sex marriage, to name a few.
As COVID cases rise, some activists fearful of climate talks
LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the U.N. climate conference beginning Sunday, and it scares him — even though he’s been vaccinated and is only 29.
Canada to donate 10 million doses of Moderna vaccine to COVAX
ROME — Canada will donate 10 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX vaccine sharing facility and another $15 million to help make mRNA vaccines in Africa, the Prime Minister announced Saturday. Justin Trudeau revealed details of the d...
California governor abruptly skips UN climate conference
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says unspecified “family obligations" are responsible for his abrupt decision to cancel a trip to next week's United Nations Cllimate Change Conference in Scotland.
Maine voters torn by Hydro-Québec plan as referendum set for Tuesday
FORKS, MAINE — A major Hydro-Québec electricity export project is tearing apart the citizens of Maine, who will vote on its future in a referendum on Tuesday. In communities near the 233-kilometre route of the Appalachian-Maine interconnection line, t...
US Democratic governors to participate in U.N. climate talks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. governors want a seat at the table as international leaders prepare to gather in Scotland at a critical moment for global efforts to reduce fossil fuel emissions and slow the planet's temperature rise.
Newson suddenly pulls out of trip to UN climate conference
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Unspecified “family obligations" prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to suddenly cancel his trip to Scotland for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, a huge gathering of international leaders on a s...
US to gauge climate damage from federal oil and gas sales
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling on federal lands on a national scale, as the Biden administration steps up efforts to address climate change, the
Environment minister ‘cautiously optimistic’ about UN climate change conference
OTTAWA — Canada has two "very heavy weeks" ahead as the government gears up for negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. International officials are set to meet in Scotland starting Sund...
California oil spill: Surfing, swimming OK but fishing out
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Four weeks after an oil spill washed blobs of crude onto Southern California's coast, surfers have returned to the waves and people play in the surf.