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Rising Rents, Hurricane Damage Drive Homelessness Crisis in Louisiana
Only six months after seeing their homes destroyed by back-to-back hurricanes, many renters in the industrial heartland of southwest Louisiana have found themselves literally ... -
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Toronto Cuts Climate Funding, Delays Long-Term Emissions Plan as Pandemic Strains Finances
Toronto city council decided last week to delay planning activities and reduce funding for its TranformTO climate plan, ignoring warnings that the climate crisis ... -
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City Forests Hold Promise for Significant CO2 Offsets, Study Concludes
Urban reforestation in cities in the Global South could be a cost-effective path to offsetting some part of global city emissions, according to a ... -
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Off-Gassing Upholstery, Highway Emissions Make Cars Toxic Inside and Out
The average commute time in California is 30 minutes, and growing. And according to a new study, the half-hour spent in vehicles that off-gas ... -
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Alberta Towns Declare Crisis as Deadbeat Fossils’ Unpaid Tax Bills Triple to $245 Million
The exponential growth of unpaid property taxes from Alberta’s struggling oilpatch is threatening small communities and they need new ways to enforce the rules, ... -
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Going All In on EV Adoption Won’t Solve America’s Car Addiction: Op-Ed
While the Biden administration’s recent pledge to replace the U.S. government’s fleet of some 650,000 vehicles with EVs is being welcomed, observers warn that ... -
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Pickering-Area Citizens Launch Blockade, ‘Shoe Strike’ to Protect Sensitive Local Wetland
Community groups and angry citizens from Pickering, Ontario are going up against what one news report calls “a billionaire and a business-friendly government” to ... -
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Amtrak One? With a Rail Enthusiast in the White House, Transit Advocate Eyes a Renaissance
Through a three-decade career in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden famously made the commute from Delaware to Washington, DC by rail, and his ... -
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Appalachia Counties Lose Jobs, Population Despite Massive Fracking Boom
The 22 counties in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio that have been at the centre of an extraordinary, decade-long fracking boom have seen very ... -
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Alberta, B.C. Receive New Funding Under Federal Oil Well Cleanup Program
The Alberta, British Columbia, and federal governments have unveiled a new round of funding to help clean up inactive oil and gas sites in ... -
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Big City Mayors Cheer as Trudeau Offers Permanent Federal Transit Funding
The federal Liberal government is promising cash-strapped cities billions of dollars in permanent funding for their public transit systems—though most of the money won’t ... -
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U.S. Cities Vastly Underreport Their Emissions, Study Concludes
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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‘Ending Zero-Sum Green Energy Politics’ Depends on Local Solutions, Win-Win Thinking
A detailed, local pitch for jobs and economic activity will be central to the Biden administration’s push to transform the way the United States ... -
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Canada and U.S. Drastically Underestimate Methane Emissions as Atmospheric Levels Rise
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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Trudeau Tree-Planting Plan to Run $2.78B Over Budget, PBO Warns
The parliamentary budget office says a pledge by the Trudeau Liberals to plant two billion trees could cost almost double what the government says.
