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Feds to require biggest suppliers to disclose emissions, set carbon footprint targets

Feds to require biggest suppliers to disclose emissions, set carbon footprint targets

OTTAWA — Major suppliers to the federal government will soon have to start disclosing their carbon footprint to keep doing business with Ottawa.
US climate envoy Kerry stresses will for Amazon cooperation

US climate envoy Kerry stresses will for Amazon cooperation

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — U.S.
Endangered Mexican wolf population makes strides in US

Endangered Mexican wolf population makes strides in US

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Endangered Mexican gray wolves are making more strides, as more breeding pairs and pups have been documented since reintroduction efforts began in the southwestern U.S.
EPA opens office near site of Ohio toxic train derailment

EPA opens office near site of Ohio toxic train derailment

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The head of the U.S.

Investigation of powder in air reveals it was pollen

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials investigating reports of a powder in the air and on some vehicles in the mid-Atlantic have determined the source: pollen.
Fraction of Nova Scotia's Green Fund spent on climate change programs: auditor

Fraction of Nova Scotia's Green Fund spent on climate change programs: auditor

HALIFAX — Only a fraction of a Nova Scotia government fund established to combat climate change has been spent on solving the problem, the province's auditor general revealed in an audit released Tuesday.
Biden faces dilemma in fight over large Alaska oil project

Biden faces dilemma in fight over large Alaska oil project

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities in the region but environmentalists say i

Somalia drought 'extremely critical' but no famine projected

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Food security experts say life remains “extremely critical” for more than 6 million hungry people in Somalia’s historic drought , but they no longer project famine for the worst-hit population of nearly a quarter-million people
Germany threatens to hold up EU's combustion-engine car ban

Germany threatens to hold up EU's combustion-engine car ban

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's transport minister said Tuesday that his country won't back a planned European Union ban on the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035, after failing to get assurances from the bloc's executive for an exemption on
Brazil delegation visits Amazon region where pair died

Brazil delegation visits Amazon region where pair died

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — A high-level delegation of the Brazilian government traveled on Monday to the remote corner of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered last year, to
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