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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 ... -
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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 ... -
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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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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 ... -
‘Epic’ Oil Crash Crowns Coal as the Priciest Fossil
Coal—once the world’s cheapest form of energy—is now the most expensive after oil prices crashed through March. But analysts say the price point will ... -
Margolin: After Coronavirus Response, Older Generations Must Step Up for Youth
With younger generations willingly adopting the tough constraints required to #FlattenTheCurve on the coronavirus, a Gen Z climate campaigner from the United States says ... -
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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, ... -
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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 ... -
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Kenney Seeks North American Oil Cartel to Counter Saudi Price Cuts
While the collapse of OPEC and the subsequent crash of global oil markets has Alberta Premier Jason Kenney musing about setting up a North ... -
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U.S. Economic Stimulus Package Dumps $3-Billion Oil Buy But Rebuffs Renewables
A push to include solar and wind energy tax credits in the United States’ US$2-trillion emergency stimulus package to address the coronavirus pandemic stalled ... -
U.S. Judge Orders New Environmental Assessment for Dakota Access Pipeline
A U.S. federal judge has sent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers back the drawing board in its review of the fiercely-contested Dakota Access ... -
Climate Satellites Still On the Job, Delivering Data to Help Coronavirus Fight
Their manufacturers may be offline, and their mission control stations are on skeleton staff, but the NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) satellites that ... -
Arctic Climate Research Expedition Faces COVID-19 Delays
Delays and uncertainty have come to the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, after a team member based in ... -
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Youth Climate Campaigners Show Empathy, Ingenuity in Face of Pandemic Crisis
As COVID-19 explodes around the world, youth climate activists are responding with empathy and ingenuity, moving en masse from the streets to the web, ... -
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Atkin: Pandemic Shows Responsibility of Elites, and Power of Individuals Acting Together
Last week was supposed to be a mental break. Instead, it was mental chaos—and not just because I was attempting to fly home from ...
