Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Focus on Emissions

FILE PHOTO: Workers load packages into Amazon Rivian electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway, California, U.S., November 16, 2022.  REUTERS/Sandy Huffaker/File Photo
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Amazon unveils first electric seaport trucks amid push to slash tailpipe emissions

The deployment is a first for Amazon, extending its vehicle electrification projects across its land-based logistics network that stretches from ocean ports to...

The Alberta Energy Regulator has fined a Calgary-based junior oil and gas producer for failing to meet its fugitive emissions and methane reporting requirements. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Alberta oil and gas company fined for violating methane rules

The Alberta Energy Regulator has fined a Calgary-based junior oil and gas producer for failing to meet its fugitive emission and methane reporting...

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For farmers, watching and waiting is a spring planting ritual. Climate change is adding to anxiety

Waiting on the weather is an old story in agriculture, but as climate change drives an increase in spring rains across the Midwest,...

The Lululemon logo is seen on a wall at the company's headquarters in Vancouver, on Thursday, May 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Canada’s Competition Bureau launches inquiry into Lululemon over ‘greenwashing’ allegations

Canada's Competition Bureau has launched an inquiry into Vancouver-based Lululemon following a complaint from members of an environmental group.

The EU's Green Deal is a key project of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (AFP)
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EU’s Green Deal target of disinfo ahead of June vote

The EU's Green Deal has been the target of virulent online disinformation ahead of European parliament elections in June

People scavenge recyclable materials for a living, at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, April 22, 2024. Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo. They have planted more than 100 seedlings along the wall that separates the school from the trash dump that was declared full 23 years ago. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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Students turn to bamboo to ease effect of African trash dump

Fast-growing bamboo's CO2 capture potential could help Kenyan teenagers struggling to cope with the filthy air of dumpsite next to school.

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Public backs move to green home heating but more government support is needed, research shows

Members of the public are open to using alternative green heating, and are willing to tolerate the inconvenience of having it installed. But...

Three groups challenged Grant Shapps’ decision to approve the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan in March 2023, when he was Secretary of State for for Energy Security and Net Zero (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)
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UK Government acted unlawfully in approving climate plan: High Court

The former secretary of state, Grant Shapps's decision to approve the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan was ruled “not justified by the evidence”.

Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, answers questions on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Environment groups criticize Ottawa’s walk-back on pollution impact assessment

Environmental groups say Canada's Liberal government is giving up its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through proposed amendments to the federal Impact...

da's latest greenhouse gas emissions report shows progress toward meeting its next target in 2030 but there is still a very long way to go. A man fills up his truck with gas in Toronto, on Monday, April 1, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Latest national emissions report shows signs of progress toward Canada’s 2030 goal

Canada's latest greenhouse-gas emissions report shows the country making progress toward meeting its next target in 2030, but there is still a very...

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