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Ontario company Friendlier aims to help phase out single-use plastics

Their company has already washed nearly half a million plastic containers, but the founders of Friendlier hope to scrub more and expand their operations as Canada phases out single-use plastics.

Mar 21, 2023 2:00 AM Read more >

Top 10 historic Sierra snow seasons

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Mar 20, 2023 8:04 PM Read more >

World on 'thin ice' as UN climate report gives stark warning

BERLIN (AP) — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

Mar 20, 2023 4:55 PM Read more >

Guilbeault wants stronger links with Alberta on issues of oilsands tailings ponds

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has repeated his call for a stronger federal presence when it comes to environmental monitoring and communications in the oilsands, following a pair of wastewater releases from Imperial Oil's Kearl mine

Mar 20, 2023 4:28 PM Read more >

Canada will take a 'hard long look' at UN call to speed emissions reduction: minister

OTTAWA — Canada will take a "hard long look" at a call from global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.

Mar 20, 2023 4:10 PM Read more >

Official: Mountain lion claws man in hot tub in Colorado

NATHROP, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials said Monday they are searching for a mountain lion that clawed a man's head while he was sitting in a hot tub with his wife at a rental home in central Colorado.

Mar 20, 2023 3:42 PM Read more >

Judge pauses Biden waterway protections in Texas, Idaho

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A federal judge paused the Biden administration's waterway protections in Texas and Idaho as Republicans across the country challenge the environmental regulations as vague and argue the rules would create economic burdens.

Mar 20, 2023 3:29 PM Read more >

Last wild Atlantic salmon can survive Maine dams, feds say

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government ruled Monday that the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country can coexist with hydroelectric dams on a Maine river, dealing a blow to environmentalists who have long sought to remove the dams.

Mar 20, 2023 3:18 PM Read more >

RBC fossil fuel expansion funding jumped 45% last year to US$10.8B: report

TORONTO — Data from an environmental group shows RBC's fossil fuel expansion-related funding jumped by almost half last year to its highest level since the Paris climate agreement was reached in 2015. Stand.earth says the bank's US$10.

Mar 20, 2023 11:24 AM Read more >

France ordered to curb mass dolphin deaths in fishing nets

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest administrative body on Monday ordered the government to better protect endangered dolphins and porpoises in an industrial fishing hub in the Atlantic Ocean that has become controversial over links to mass deaths of the c

Mar 20, 2023 10:25 AM Read more >