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Biodiversity & HabitatBrazilClimate DenialDrought, Famine & WildfiresFirst PeoplesForests & DeforestationMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSevere Storms & Flooding
Macron Declares International Crisis with 165,000 Fires Burning Across Amazon Rainforest, 70,000 in Brazil
With inadequate firefighting resources leaving massive swaths of the environmentally crucial Amazon rainforest in flames, and Brazil's conspiracy-breathing president falsely blaming environmentalists and discounting ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCarbon Levels & MeasurementLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSupply Chains & ConsumptionTar Sands/Oil Sands
New Federal Assessment Rules Exempt Cement Plants, Fracking, In-Situ Tar Sands/Oil Sands
New cement plants, fracking fields, and in-situ tar sands/oil sands projects should not be exempt from review under the federal government’s new Impact Assessment ... -
Elections Canada’s ‘Overly Broad’ Ruling Suppresses Free Speech: CAN-Rac
Elections Canada must clarify the specific circumstances under which climate change communication would be considered election advertising once the federal election campaign gets under ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFailure Is Not An OptionFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryUnited States
Financial Risk of Climate Change Has Economists, Ratings Agencies Worried
The potentially devastating economic and financial impact of unrestrained climate change has been coming into focus in several recent news stories, with global GDP ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Finance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentPipelines/Rail Transport
Alberta Fossil Buys Kinder Morgan Canada, Shows Less Interest in Trans Mountain
The Calgary-based pipeliner that bought Kinder Morgan Canada this week says it isn’t keen to make a bid for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, ... -
CanadaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourFirst PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
Coastal GasLink Asks First Nations to Squelch Community Opposition as NEB Rules Against Federal Review
Just two weeks after Canada’s National Energy Board rejected calls for it to review the contested Coastal GasLink shale gas pipeline, a First Nation ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryOceansOil & GasUnited StatesWind
Trump Officials Throw Roadblocks at Offshore Wind Project After Accelerating Fossil Development
The Trump administration is showing a distinct double standard in a series of decisions to deregulate fossil fuel development while slowing down the landmark ... -
Leach: ‘Cloaked in Mystery, Choked with Irony,’ Scheer Climate Plan Walks Away from Paris Promise
When Conservative leader Andrew Scheer released his long-awaited climate plan last June, it was “so cloaked in mystery and choked with irony” that readers ... -
Drought, Famine & WildfiresElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWind
Bankrupt California Utility Will Still Honour $42 Billion in Solar, Wind Contracts
There were sighs of relief in California earlier this month, after utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric confirmed it will honour all its contracts ... -
Michigan Utility Deal Could Trigger 584 MW of New Solar Capacity
Michigan ratepayers stand to benefit significantly from a proposed settlement that will find the state utility finally paying the true “avoided cost” of buying ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementChinaCoalElectricity GridEnergy Access & EquityEnergy PoliticsGeneral RenewablesInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesOff-GridOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionSolarUnited StatesWind
WoodMac Sees Peril in Trump-China Trade Dispute as Energy Decarbonization Lags
The increasingly bitter trade dispute between the Trump administration and China is shaping up as a new barrier to getting global greenhouse gas emissions ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaClimate Action/"Blockadia"EuropeFirst PeoplesFood SecurityHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternationalTravel, Leisure & RecreationUnited States
Memorial for Iceland’s First ‘Fallen Glacier’ Provokes Grief, Galvanizes Action
In a ceremony designed to provoke the deepest sense of grief, and to galvanize all who hear of it to action, Iceland recently commemorated ...
