Tag Archives: Environment

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A severe lack of affordable housing has prompted Oregon lawmakers to consider chipping away at a 1970s law that made the state a national leader in leveraging land use policy to ...

TABER, Alta. - An Alberta country music star is criticizing the province's energy minister for advising its energy regulator to accept initial applications for a coal mine project in the eastern slope...

A bug encroaching on Quebec's strawberry fields could help forecast climate change's impact on agriculture, a new study suggests, the latest to consider what the authors called the "colossal task" of ...

SECHELT, B.C. - The captain of a commercial fishing vessel has been fined $250,000 by a provincial court judge and ordered to forfeit $80,000 worth of equipment after being caught setting prawn traps ...

Alberta's energy regulator has accepted initial applications and is to open public hearings for a controversial open-pit coal mine on the eastern slopes of the province's southern Rocky Mountains that...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's electric utility will lose control over who gets access to the power grid under a change the government says is needed to help the province reach its energy goals, including to...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill Thursday that would raise a variety of hunting, fishing and trapping license fees for out-of-state residents to help shrink a deficit in the...

OTTAWA - The federal government's carbon price could generate more than $5 billion from the federal sales tax over the next seven years, but none of that is directly earmarked for climate programs. Th...

The Government of Saskatchewan is condemning proposed federal regulations on the oil and gas industry, saying they would devastate the provincial economy and drop production by as much as 30 per cent....

Indigenous leaders say political opposition in British Columbia derailed a plan that would have cleared the way for shared decision-making between the province and First Nations over the use of public...