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Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, October 18, 2021, will highlight the problems caused by Western drought and make the case for the Biden administration's infrastructure and climate change proposals that have stalled in Congress.

Canada will continue requiring travellers to show a negative test result before entering the country.

Seven major offshore wind farms would be developed on the East and West coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico under a plan announced on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, by the Biden administration.

Ottawa has also been actively lobbying the White House on the mixed dose issue.

Fully vaccinated Canadian vacationers and day-trippers will be allowed to drive into the United States beginning in early November, the Biden administration said on Tuesday, Oct. 12.

It took little more than 48 hours from the moment a major oil spill was discovered off Southern California until the first lawsuit was filed against the Houston company that owns and operates the ruptured pipeline.

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement Monday that the transit pipeline treaty “guarantees the uninterrupted transit of light crude oil and natural gas liquids between the two countries.”

While the return of two detained Canadians has ended a contentious dispute between Canada and China, experts say Ottawa now faces some hard choices when it comes to Beijing.

In what officials call a key step to combat climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

Four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California’s Sequoia National Park, authorities said.

Flames on Sunday reached a grove of sequoia trees in California as firefighters battled to keep fire from driving further into another grove, where the base of the world’s largest tree has been wrapped in protective foil.

Vermont on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, became the latest state to sue some of the country's top fossil fuel companies by alleging they misled the public about the impact their products have on climate change.

A "regressive" abortion ban in Texas has left the United States in violation of international law, and the Supreme Court — the ultimate guardian of the landmark 1973 ruling that makes it legal — is complicit, a United Nations expert panel declared on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

President Joe Biden tried to advance his domestic spending plans on Colorado on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, by warning about climate change's dangers while highlighting how his clean-energy proposals would also create good-paying jobs.

At least 18 of the 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have now tested positive for COVID-19, an outbreak that began just days before the zoo had hoped to obtain a veterinary vaccine for the primates, officials said on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.