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Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCoalEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentJobsOil & GasShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
Trudeau Admits Trans Mountain is a Fossil Subsidy as Report Urges Clean Energy Shift
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as much as admitted this week that the federal bailout of Kinder Morgan’s troubled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion amounts ... -
Permafrost Melt Closes In on Critical Climate Tipping Point
Melting permafrost is closing in on a critical tipping point where it will release large volumes of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, ... -
AsiaCoalEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentGeneral RenewablesPost-Carbon Transition
‘Other Industrial Behemoths Will Follow’ as Japanese Developer Signals Exit from Coal
The decision this week by Tokyo-based industrial conglomerate Marubeni to step away from any future role in developing coal-fired power plants is a signature ... -
AustraliaCarbon Levels & MeasurementDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNational Plans & ResponsesPost-Carbon Transition
Backbenchers Work Across Party Lines to Craft ‘Credible’ Climate Policy for New Zealand
Two years of consensus building through “clear-eyed analysis and good faith engagement” between policy-makers, industry, and civil society has left New Zealand with a ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail Transport
Ottawa Weighs Hiring Retired Judge to Guide Trans Mountain Consultations While Kinder Morgan Plots Canadian Asset Sale
While Houston-based Kinder Morgan made moves to sell off the last of its Canadian assets, federal sources say the Trudeau government—Kinder Morgan’s C$4.5-billion benefactor ... -
BuildingsCitiesDrive to 1.5Electricity GridFailure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island StatesSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Major Mental Health Crisis Hits Puerto Rico as Year-Long Hurricane Recovery Lags
A year after Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed much of the infrastructure on the island of Puerto Rico, the country is ... -
Drive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationNuclearSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Poor and Rural North Carolinians Are Hardest Hit as Aerial Photos Show ‘Overwhelming’ Devastation
Aerial photos showed “overwhelming” devastation, an 1,870-megawatt nuclear plant had to be shut down, and poor and rural residents of the Carolinas were hit ... -
U.S. Science Teachers Stand Up for Climate Science
Responding to escalating pressures on American public school teachers to de-emphasize, and even eliminate, climate change education from their classrooms, the National Science Teachers ... -
CanadaClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEuropeFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesOceansPetrochemicals & PlasticsSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island StatesUnited States
CARE Canada: Fighting Plastics Pollution No Substitute for G7 Action on Climate Impacts
G7 countries’ initiative to attack plastic pollution during this week’s environment and energy ministers’ meeting in Halifax is no substitute for faster action to ... -
Big Green Groups Plan Record Spending in U.S. Mid-Term Elections
Horrified by the ongoing actions of “the most anti-environmental president in history,” America’s most powerful environmental groups—the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), the Sierra ... -
B.C. Fire Tornado Grabs Firefighters’ Hose, Pulls It 100 Feet in the Air
A team of responders in British Columbia had a recent close encounter with a wildfire that grabbed their hose…and wouldn’t let go. -
Demand & EfficiencyDrawdownElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Cogeneration Would Save 3.97 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Cogeneration ranks #50 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions, with the potential to eliminate 3.97 gigatons of carbon dioxide at a net cost of US$279.3 billion, while ...
