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“I do see challenges, particularly in the winter when snowplows would likely damage the cable when they run over them on the sidewalk,” says the head of the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa.

The agriculture committee kicked off its study of Bill C-206, which aims to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to add propane and natural gas to the list of farm fuels exempt from the federal carbon tax.

Canada’s federal environment commissioner should be made an independent officer of Parliament, three experts told a House of Commons committee Monday.

The federal government published proposed regulations online March 5 that would establish a Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System. The proposal is open for feedback until May 5; the government expects to publish final rules later this year.

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he is open to "a range of different amendments" to Bill C-12, the government’s net-zero legislation.

The grant is supposed to cover the upfront costs of buying 5,000 buses over the next five years. The Canada Infrastructure Bank has also committed $1.5 billion as part of its three-year, $10-billion growth plan specifically for zero-emission buses and related infrastructure.

A majority of the contaminated sites liability is connected with mine sites, accounting for $315 million worth, or 62 per cent.

New peer-reviewed study finds global pollution cuts need to increase tenfold to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

The federal government announced nearly $3.5 million in funding for the MySafe project, an initiative that provides people medical-grade opioids through a biometric vending machine.

Assessments of mining activity should not proceed until “access to clean water, housing, and health services have been secured for all upstream and downstream communities from the proposed Ring of Fire," the groups say.

As city planners and building managers move to crack down on energy use and carbon pollution coming out of the built environment, the gas-powered swimming pool could become another example of how natural gas heating in buildings is being singled out for scrutiny.

The Dark Vessel Detection program uses satellite technology to locate and track ships partaking in illegal fishing whose location transmitting devices have been switched off.

Group including Climate Action Network Canada executive director Catherine Abreu and Assembly of First Nations Yukon Regional Chief Kluane Adamek will be able to draw upon the resources of Environment and Climate Change Canada and other government departments to conduct emissions modelling or other analysis, and can be briefed by public servants on federal programs.

The House of Commons Natural Resources committee has embarked on a study of “critical minerals” in Canada — a term referring to the raw materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, aluminum and copper that go into making lithium-ion batteries, the standard workhorse of the electric vehicle and energy-storage world.

The Green Party is proposing a basic income model that would give every Canadian a basic revenue source that could cover necessities such as clothing, food and housing.