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Cost of India quitting coal is $900 billion, think tank says

Cost of India quitting coal is $900 billion, think tank says

BENGALURU, India (AP) — If India stopped burning coal tomorrow, over five million people would lose their jobs .
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'Appalling': Southern Africa counts toll of Cyclone Freddy

'Appalling': Southern Africa counts toll of Cyclone Freddy

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which ravaged Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique over the past two months, now stands at more than 600 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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Alberta information commissioner to investigate Kearl tailings leak notifications

Alberta information commissioner to investigate Kearl tailings leak notifications

EDMONTON — Alberta's information commissioner has started an investigation into how the province's energy regulator notified the public about tailings pond releases at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine.
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Manitoba government expects spring flooding but not a threat to community defences

Manitoba government expects spring flooding but not a threat to community defences

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's annual battle against spring flooding may not be too onerous this year, provincial flood forecasters said Wednesday.
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Explosion, fire injure 1 at Houston-area chemical plant

Explosion, fire injure 1 at Houston-area chemical plant

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — An explosion and fire erupted Wednesday at a chemical plant in suburban Houston, injuring one person. Officials were still investigating what caused the blast at 12:11 p.m. at the plant in the city of Pasadena.
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Oil exec held for 5 years in Venezuela sues Citgo for $100M

Oil exec held for 5 years in Venezuela sues Citgo for $100M

HOUSTON (AP) — One of the Citgo oil executives who was held for nearly five years in Venezuela has sued his company for $100 million, alleging it conspired in his detention and then abandoned him and his family as he wasted away in horrific prison co
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Don't assume U.S. minds are made up about Safe Third Country treaty: Canada's envoy

Don't assume U.S. minds are made up about Safe Third Country treaty: Canada's envoy

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration is not dismissing out of hand the idea of renegotiating the bilateral 2004 treaty that governs the flow of asylum seekers across its northern border, says Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
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Nevada to add gas plant as drought tests US West power grids

Nevada to add gas plant as drought tests US West power grids

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Utility regulators in Nevada gave the state’s largest power provider clearance to start work on a $333 million project to build a natural gas plant in the state for the first time in nearly 15 years, signaling yet another consequence
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UN chief urges 'game-changing' commitments on clean water

UN chief urges 'game-changing' commitments on clean water

UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the first world conference on water in over 45 years on Wednesday to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without
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A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
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