In Denver, e-bike vouchers are snapped up as fast as Taylor Swift tickets
The city estimates that its wildly popular subsidies are helping to eliminate 170,000 vehicle miles travelled per week.
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Treehouse Village: Eco-housing and energy savings
A closer look at the technology behind Bridgewater’s energy-efficient co-housing community.
‘Still Better Than a Carbon Tax’ is Nova Scotia’s climate alternative
Premier Tim Houston has responded to a challenge from the prime minister to submit an alternative to the federal carbon pricing program.
Class-action suit by Quebec taxi drivers against Quebec for permitting Uber begins
A trial opens on Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit accusing the Quebec government of wiping out hundreds of millions of dollars in the value of taxi permits by allowing ride-hailing company Uber to operate and then by abolishing the permit system.
MP Han Dong set to address foreign interference inquiry
A federal inquiry into foreign interference is set to hear from the Independent MP at the centre of allegations about foreign meddling in Canadian elections.
Enviro groups call for review of Canada's underreported forestry emissions
Nearly a dozen environmental groups are calling on the federal government to expand its review of Canada's forestry sector emissions, saying the current scope fails to address their concerns about underreporting.
Orca calf still stuck but looks healthy in B.C. lagoon
A stranded killer whale calf is showing signs of regular activity as it breaches every seven to 10 minutes in a lagoon near the northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos.
Florida is about to scrub climate change from most of its laws
The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don't want to name the cause.
‘Lipstick on a pig’: Environmental groups take aim at Eby’s good news climate announcement
The B.C. government has a pattern of issuing climate announcements when it approves fossil fuel expansion projects, say environmental groups.
Advocates ‘delighted’ as Canada gets school meals
The federal funding is a first for Canada. Unlike every other G7 country, Canadian students have long relied on a patchwork of programs advocates have criticized for leaving many children hungry.
Carbon tax tensions boil over on day of protest
A giant inflatable sheep mingled with profanity-laced signs about the federal government, high food prices, inadequate housing and conspiracy theories as people gathered in Ottawa on Monday to protest the carbon price hike.
Premiers are using the carbon price increase to further their own political interests, Trudeau says
Trudeau was responding to Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey's call for an "emergency meeting of leaders," just the latest of several last-ditch provincial efforts to forestall a higher fuel levy.
N.L. premier asks Trudeau for meeting to discuss carbon price alternatives
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey penned a letter to Trudeau over the weekend asking for an "emergency meeting of leaders."
Tourists expected to swarm Niagara Falls for solar eclipse
The chance to observe a natural celestial spectacle alongside one of the Seven Wonders of North America is expected to draw about a million people to Niagara Falls, Ont., for next month's solar eclipse, the city's mayor said on Saturday as he urged community members to prepare for the largest influx of tourists in local history.
Blame climate change for longer lasting, hotter, more hurtful heat waves: study
Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds.