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California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.

“I’m not a scientist. I’m a mom who cares,” she said. “We have got to be better stewards of the environment and while reducing carbon emissions is necessary, injecting them into the basin is not the answer.”

The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.

Decades of war, poverty, and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s environment and its people.

The mammoth Covanta waste incinerators in Newark and Camden illustrate the challenges ahead for the state's efforts to achieve environmental justice.

Data experts are cautioning already on-edge Canadians against taking Ontario's dire predictions about COVID-19 deaths literally, even as the revelation of stark data coincided with more physical distancing measures and impassioned pleas by government and health officials to stay home.

“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.”

German auto giant Volkswagen appears ready to strike a plea deal with Canada after being charged on Monday, December 9, 2019, for allegedly importing cars into this country that company executives knew violated emissions standards.

The Canadian sailors who fought a deadly fire aboard the submarine HMCS Chicoutimi in 2004 suffered from significantly elevated levels of post-traumatic stress, depression and asthma in the first five years after the tragedy, a new study says.

The equivalent of 11,000 new cases of childhood asthma a day occur worldwide due to toxic air from traffic, researchers say, while Canada has the third highest rate in the world, trailing only Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Toronto is also among the top 10 cities with the highest number of asthma cases among children.

When wildfire smoke blankets a province, as it did in B.C. for weeks this summer, there are marked increases in asthma attacks and respiratory infections, as well as smaller increases for things like heart attacks and cardiac arrests, a B.C. scientist says.

Manitoba's sustainable development minister says a federal threat to impose a higher carbon tax on the province is misguided and reveals a breakdown of co-operative federalism.

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.