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Keystone XL to Start Construction with $8 Billion in Financial Aid from Alberta
Calgary-based TC Energy is starting construction on the Keystone XL pipeline between Hardisty, Alberta and Steele City, Nebraska, after the Jason Kenney government announced ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCanadaDemand & EfficiencyEnergy PoliticsHealth & SafetyJobsLegal & RegulatoryUnited States
Trump Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standard Aimed at Cleansing the Air, Cutting Emissions
With his country in the grips of an out-of-control pandemic of respiratory disease, Donald Trump is pressing ahead with his long-standing plan to gut ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Finance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPipelines/Rail Transport
The Interview: Pandemic Recovery Can Boost the Economy, Attack Emissions, Increase Climate Resilience, Nagata Says
Kai Nagata is Communications Director at Dogwood in British Columbia. Since the pandemic began, he’s been pointing out that every dollar spent on the ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Health & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesNational Plans & ResponsesUnited States
UN Postpones COP 26 Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
The United Nations has postponed this year’s global climate change conference, COP 26, to the middle of next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
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‘Now Is the Time’ for Food Security Planning, Dauncey Urges
With the pandemic posing an increasing threat to food security, policy-makers need to be thinking hard, and quickly, about how to protect the supply ... -
DemographicsHealth & SafetyMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Extreme Weather Response Holds Answers to COVID-19’s ‘Slow-Motion Hurricane’
The COVID-19 pandemic is a kind of “slow-motion hurricane”, and lessons from past hurricane disasters can help guide us through it, according to a ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy SubsidiesEuropeHealth & SafetyNational Plans & Responses
European Green Deal Will Guide Coronavirus Recovery Plan, EU Leaders Pledge
European Union leaders have agreed to make the massive economic measures they’re planning in response to the coronavirus match up with the continent-wide Green ... -
Cleanse the Air to Help #FlattenTheCurve, Doctors Urge
While physical distancing and handwashing (have you washed your hands recently??) are essential strategies to #FlattenTheCurve on the coronavirus pandemic, governments can also reduce ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate DenialCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDrive to 1.5Health & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesNational Plans & Responses
COVID-19 Produces Lessons Learned on Climate, Biodiversity
While the direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic receives the lion’s share of public and media attention, there’s been a steady drumbeat of news ... -
Shell Postpones ‘Crucial Maintenance’ on Alberta Upgrader to Minimize COVID-19 Risk
Shell Canada is postponing what the Calgary Herald describes as “crucial maintenance” on its Scotford tar sands/oil sands upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, to ... -
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Electricity, Clean Water Hold Keys to Human and Climate Health
While the world’s most industrialized countries grapples with health care systems that are strained and fraying in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, large ... -
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E-Commerce Giants Produce Lower Emissions, But Fail on Workers’ Respiratory Health
While e-commerce heavyweights like Amazon generate lower greenhouse gas emissions than traditional bricks-and-mortar shops, online shopping is still producing massive amounts of local pollution, ... -
CitiesDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureOceansSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island StatesUnited States
AccuWeather Predicts Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season
Meteorologists at commercial weather service AccuWeather are forecasting the fifth straight above-average Atlantic hurricane season, with a projection of 14 to 18 tropical storms ... -
AustraliaBiodiversity & HabitatCarbon-Free TransitionHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
A Metaphor in a Shipment of Masks: “We Are Waves of the Same Sea”
The “narrative collapse” attending the coronavirus as this “tiny bundle of protein, 120 nanometres in diameter, carrying just eight kilobytes of genetic code” leapfrogs ... -
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Pandemic Response Should Mobilize Around Low-Carbon Solutions
With the coronavirus pandemic devastating the global economy and pushing world oil prices over a cliff, the federal government has two potential options in ...
