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Canada's National Observer presents Episode 5 of The Poison Detectives — Toxic Justice. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Real-time satellite monitoring shows that so far in 2024, more than 10,000 wildfires have ripped across 11,000 square kilometres of the Amazon, across multiple countries. Never have this many fires burned so much of the forest this early in the year.

The final rule marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled regulations governing tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in everyday products, from household cleaners to clothing and furniture.

The agreement signed in the northern German city of Hamburg by federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck is aimed at securing early access to the German market for Canadian hydrogen producers.

The Progressive Conservatives have been running ads dubbing Crombie the "queen of the carbon tax," suggesting she championed the policy when she was a federal Liberal MP, and have even introduced legislation to require a future Ontario government to hold a referendum before implementing a new provincial carbon pricing system.

Balmy weather across much of British Columbia helped set dozens of new temperature records across the province on Saturday.

His casket is being brought to Ottawa on Tuesday, where he will lie in state for two days. 

The Manitoba government says it's taking measures to mitigate potential impact to the province's economy after Imperial Oil Ltd. announced it has temporarily shut down a pipeline that supplies gasoline, diesel and jet fuel to Winnipeg and the surrounding area.

Phil Pothen of Environmental Defence acknowledges the significance of funding the work of the Greenbelt Foundation. But $12 million is a minor gesture relative to the uncertainty created by the Ford government's attempts to remove land from the protected region, he said.

The federal government is searching for a dozen young people to sit on the Environment and Climate Change Youth Council for the next two years.

With two LEED Platinum-certified buildings, Dalhousie University hopes to teach a new environmental lesson about saving energy.

On land fish farming is presented as an alternative to growing salmon in the ocean. Proponents point to it as a viable alternative since there is no contact between the farmed fish and wild species. However, salmon farmed in the ocean and on land face a mutual dilemma: the ecological toll of fish feed. A Nova Scotia company is working to change that.

Industry representatives have characterized the lawsuits as a “waste of taxpayer resources” and contended that climate change should be addressed by Congress, not the courts.

B.C. could soon become the first province to partially ban a group of cancer-causing chemicals used in everything from firefighting equipment to makeup. Tabled by BC Green MLA Adam Olsen, the proposed law would ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals in the firefighting equipment used by the province's professional and volunteer fire crews. 

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