Environment News

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says it has been told there is a "potential leak" in a containment pond holding toxic water at the Eagle Gold mine, where millions of tonnes of contaminated rock were spilled last year.

SAVANNAH, Ga.

TORONTO — Environment Canada says two massive summer storms helped catapult Toronto's Pearson International Airport to its wettest year on record.

It takes years to rebuild a whale. Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed numerous whale skeletons on the boardwalk of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island.

The Biden administration released long-awaited final rules Friday for a tax credit that will send billions of dollars to producers of cleaner hydrogen.

A strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States as frigid air escapes the Arctic, plunging as far south as Florida, meteorologists forecast.

Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old in British Columbia shows “worrisome” signs that the virus could be mutating to more easily infect humans, but that the treatment approach taken can help inform future case

OTTAWA — Canada is trying to push the world's nations to stick with the goals they set to confront the planet's main challenges, despite rising geopolitical confrontation that has made the 2030 deadlines more difficult to meet.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A surfer missing in Australia is believed to have died in a shark attack, authorities said Friday, as they searched the waters where the man disappeared.