environment
Canadian Cities Leading the Charge Against Bottled Water by Joe Cressy
Seventy-two municipalities from 8 provinces and 2 territories have implemented restrictions on bottled water.
Canada Sets Aside Its Boreal Forest as Giant Carbon Vault by Suzanne Goldenberg
By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon
In the far north latitudes, buried within a seemingly endless expanse of evergreen forests, the authorities in Canada are building up one of the world's best natural defences against global warming.
Lawsuit Filed to Block Pipeline Project by John Lorinc
Less than two weeks after the State Department gave the go-ahead for a major new pipeline to carry Alberta oil sands crude into the United States, a network of environmental and Native American groups filed a lawsuit to stop it.
The suit, filed today in United States District Court in San Francisco, accuses President Obama’s administration of significantly accelerating the importation of “dirty oil” from Alberta.
American Shoppers Misled by Greenwash, Congress Told by Suzanne Goldenberg
98% of supposedly environmentally friendly products in US supermarkets make false or confusing claims, campaigners say
More than 98% of supposedly natural and environmentally friendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims, Congress has been told. And 22% of products making green claims bear an environmental badge that has no inherent meaning, said Scot Case, of the environmental consulting firm TerraChoice.
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