air quality

A new tool that measures the environmental quality of any urban street in Canada — and maps it out in colour — illustrates vividly the many neighbourhoods in the country that have poor environment scores, neighbourhoods that are often home to racialized communities.

The federal government will spend more than $40 million of carbon tax revenue to make Ontario schools more energy efficient, the environment minister announced on Wednesday, March 10, 2021.

Most major Canadian cities saw drastic improvements in air quality over the last two months as COVID-19 kept people at home instead of on the roads.

“If you don’t think of both public health and your CO2 budget at the same time, you’re not going to make very optimal decisions.”

And that’s just the start of country’s policy-driven emissions disaster.

Preparing for a lengthy legal battle with the Trump administration about how much pollution to allow from cars, California regulators on Thursday, September 20, 2019, said they were considering cracking down on other emissions to make up for any impacts on air quality.

A wildfire burning in steep and rocky terrain in British Columbia's southern Okanagan is defying containment efforts and has grown to nine square kilometres in size.

A forest fire burning near a northern Alberta town has grown slightly, but officials say firefighters are making good progress.

Environment Canada says smoke from British Columbia's wildfires will likely result in high-risk air quality levels in parts of central Alberta by Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

Dangerous air pollution is putting many people at serious health risks with the poorest cities facing the most significant impacts.