environment
Fast food players take tentative steps towards sustainable packaging
Canada is set to ban single-use plastics by 2021.
Protests, legal challenges planned to block Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Indigenous groups, environmental organizations and cities are ready for a fight.
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A cure for carbon: Putting CO2 to work in concrete manufacturing
CarbonCure’s mission is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from concrete manufacturing.
Expert says forests killed by insects or fire need to be protected
Yukon saw 67 wildfires covering an area of more than 856 square kilometres last year.
Trudeau calls out Tory premiers for playing with national unity over C-69
187 amendments made in the Senate that would revamp the way the federal government evaluates major infrastructure projects.
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Styrofoam take-out boxes, straws among plastics ban targets
Canada currently throws out 12 times the plastic it recycles.
Canadian garbage will depart Philippines for Vancouver
The containers have been in the Philippines since 2013 and 2014, when they arrived falsely labelled as recycling plastics.
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Small business to get help on energy efficiency upgrades from carbon tax money
$1.4 billion over the next four years to help them cut their carbon-tax bills, but the CFIB says that’s not enough.
Bosch fined US$100M over diesel scandal
Bosch agreed to a US$327.5 million civil settlement in the United States for supplying emissions cheating software to Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles.
Alberta throne speech followed by bill to repeal provincial carbon tax
An Act to Repeal the Carbon Tax will kill Alberta’s greenhouse gas levy as of May 30.
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Clean energy one of Canada’s fastest growing industries
In 2017, nearly 300,000 Canadians were directly employed in the industry.
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NDP unveils parts of climate plan in motion as the Green Party edges closer
Singh calls for cancelling the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Kenney says provincial carbon tax will die May 30
Ending the tax would open the door to the federal government imposing its tax.
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Climate change strategy offers Sheer a way to win election
How does a Liberal government that can’t campaign on its abysmal record go about gaining re-election?
Senators letting Big Oil ‘run amok’ on assessment bill: Green lobby
Amendments are making it harder for anyone to challenge a project approval or denial in court.
