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  • CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National Governments

    Ecojustice Goes to Court Against Alberta’s ‘Foreign-Funded Influence’ Panel

    Full Story: The Canadian Press @CdnPressNews

    February 12, 2021
     
    February 12, 2021
    A judge in Calgary was to hear arguments this week over whether Alberta’s public inquiry into the purported foreign funding of environmental charities is ...
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  • http://midwestenergynews.com/2013/10/24/as-pipeline-concerns-mount-a-renewed-focus-on-the-great-lakes-enbridge-mackinac-line-5/
    Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesGeneral RenewablesHealth & SafetyJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportRenewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Line 5 Pipeline Battle Produces Overheated Claims on Job vs. Environment

    February 10, 2021
     
    Primary Author Compiled by The Energy Mix staff
    February 10, 2021
    As officials in Michigan look to shut down the Line 5 pipeline, business interests in Ontario and Quebec are warning of dire economic effects. ...
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  • Coal mining
    CanadaClimate & SocietyCoalFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National Governments

    Loopholes Still Allow Mountaintop Mining, Law Prof Warns, after Alberta Reinstates 1976 Coal Policy

    Full Story: The Canadian Press @CdnPressNews and APTN News @APTNNews

    February 10, 2021
     
    February 10, 2021
    Doubts are being raised about the Alberta government’s decision to restore a policy that protects the Rocky Mountains from coal mining.
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  • Climate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEuropeFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySevere Storms & FloodingSouth & Central America

    Peruvian Study Connects Flood Risk to Climate Change, Boosts Litigation Hopes

    February 10, 2021
     
    February 10, 2021
    A landmark study of a Peruvian glacier has concluded that climate change caused by human activity is the key factor in the dangerous phenomenon ...
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  • Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingDemographicsEuropeJurisdictionsLegal & Regulatory

    French Court Orders More State Action on Climate Change

    February 8, 2021
     
    February 8, 2021
    In what campaigners are calling a landmark ruling, a French court has judged the country to be failing in its commitments to fight the ...
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  • Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatorySub-National Governments

    ‘Intense Public Protest’ Prompts Alberta to Restore Some Coal Industry Regulation

    Full Story: The Canadian Press @CdnPressNews

    February 8, 2021
     
    February 8, 2021
    The Alberta government says it plans to restore some aspects of a policy it revoked last spring that protected a wide swath of the ...
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  • Carbon Levels & MeasurementCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & DistributionJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    U.S. Cities Vastly Underreport Their Emissions, Study Concludes

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
    A new study in the journal Nature Communications warns that most American cities are likely underreporting their greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 20%, an ...
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  • AfricaBiodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationEuropeHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasPipelines/Rail Transport

    ‘Tears of Joy’ as Court Orders Compensation for Shell Pipeline Spills in Nigeria

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
    A European campaign organization responded with “tears of joy”, and a reporter predicted a wave of new litigation after an appeals court in The ...
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  • Biodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States

    Permian Basin Drilling Leases Put New Mexico’s Aquifers at Risk

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
    The vast and pristine network of caves that thread through the limestone and gypsum landscape of southeastern New Mexico are otherworldly in their beauty, ...
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  • Biodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryUnited States

    Industrial Hog Farm Biogas Projects Ignore Community Impacts

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
    Many Black and low-income communities in the U.S. have long played unwilling hosts to industrial hog farms and their sub-par waste-treatment processes. Now, efforts ...
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  • Auto & Alternative VehiclesCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMethaneNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    White House Abandons Trump-Era Attacks on Vehicle Efficiency, Methane Standards

    February 5, 2021
     
    February 5, 2021
    The Biden administration is abandoning a controversial Trump-era attempt to challenge California’s legislated authority to set its own tailpipe and methane emission standards under ...
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  • CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National Governments

    Alberta Fossil Defence Tactics Ripped Right from Fossil Petro-State Playbook, Analysis Shows

    February 5, 2021
     
    February 5, 2021
    Alberta’s government may brandish democracy when it promotes its oil to the world, but its transparent efforts to silence voices of opposition to fossil ...
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  • Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWind

    Wyoming Citizens Divided on Economic Shift from Fossil to Renewables

    February 5, 2021
     
    February 5, 2021
    As the low-carbon transition takes hold, fossil-producing Wyoming is at a crossroads. The windy state is grasping at the potential to invest big in ...
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  • CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementChinaCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalDemand & DistributionEuropeHealth & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionMethaneNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingUnited States

    Canada and U.S. Drastically Underestimate Methane Emissions as Atmospheric Levels Rise

    February 3, 2021
     
    Primary Author Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
    February 3, 2021
    Federal environmental agencies are underestimating methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells by 20% in the United States and 150% in Canada, according ...
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  • Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEuropeJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas

    Ireland Plans to Ban New Oil and Gas Licences, ‘Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground’

    February 3, 2021
     
    February 3, 2021
    The Irish Cabinet has approved a legislated ban on new oil and gas exploration licences, though it still plans to honour existing licences—to the ...
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  • CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands

    Alberta Fossil Sues Province Over Stalled Tar Sands/Oil Sands Project

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
  • Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySub-National Governments

    Conservationists Urge Alberta to Take Better Care of Wetlands

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
  • Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearUnited States

    Biden Supports Nuclear, but Industry Could Still Face Tougher Regulation

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
  • BioenergyBuildingsCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & DistributionEuropeICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable Energy

    Germany Claims it Beat its 2020 Carbon Reduction Goal

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
  • AustraliaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & Regulatory

    Independent MP in Australia Draws Broad Support for Climate Bill

    February 7, 2021
     
    February 7, 2021
  • BuildingsCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemographicsHuman Rights & MigrationICYMIInsurance & LiabilityJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Black Property Owners at Risk as U.S. Pipeliners Assert Eminent Domain

    February 4, 2021
     
    February 4, 2021
  • CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHydropowerICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionRenewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    First Nations Say Hydro-Québec Jumping the Gun on U.S. Transmission Line

    February 2, 2021
     
    February 2, 2021
  • Biodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemographicsEuropeFirst PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergyWind

    Sámi Herders Go to Court Against Norwegian Wind Farm

    February 2, 2021
     
    February 2, 2021
  • AustraliaChinaClimate & SocietyCoalEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable Energy

    Mining Giant BHP Admits Losses up to $1.25B on Australian Coal Mine

    February 2, 2021
     
    February 2, 2021
  • CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands

    Impact Assessment Agency to Review Suncor Mine Expansion

    January 31, 2021
     
    January 31, 2021
  • CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyHydropowerICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionRenewable EnergySub-National Governments

    First Nations Demand Horgan Release Site C Report

    January 31, 2021
     
    January 31, 2021
  • BuildingsCanadaClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsICYMIJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & Regulatory

    Feds Keep Lights Burning in Ottawa Buildings Despite Work from Home

    January 31, 2021
     
    January 31, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Lakeland, Florida Strikes Deal to Shut 360-MW Coal Plant in March

    January 31, 2021
     
    January 31, 2021
  • Carbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEuropeICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas

    North Sea Drilling Permits May Hinge on Net-Zero Promises, UK Says

    January 31, 2021
     
    January 31, 2021
  • AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & Regulatory

    92 Big Corporations Push Japan to Double Climate Target

    January 26, 2021
     
    January 26, 2021
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