Environment News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s President, Laurentino Cortizo, signed into law an indefinite moratorium on new mining concessions Friday. The law also prohibits renewing existing concessions. Panama’s National Assembly approved the bill Thursday.

Keats Island shoreline protection project advances in the legislative process

Canada's greatest ally in the fight against climate change is nature itself, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Friday, after signing a $1.1 billion deal with British Columbia and Indigenous leaders to protect 30 per cent of B.

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Friday with U.S. President Joe Biden on the margins of a mini-summit at the White House aimed at bolstering hemispheric trade and economic stability throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Contractors cut pipe at co-housing complex on Nov. 1

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s finance minister says his province and several others made it clear during a virtual call with federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland that the national carbon pricing scheme should be eliminated.

BANFF, Alta. — Ski season has started in Alberta as two resorts in the Canadian Rockies, west of Calgary, opened for skiers and snowboarders.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the wake of complaints, changed the format of oral testimony for public comments on a draft environmental review of the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline.

MILAN (AP) — Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy's Tuscany region as Storm Ciarán pushed into the country overnight, trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars.