Kathy Hochul

People often resist congestion pricing because they favour the status quo, but seeing its benefits firsthand has turned skeptics into supporters around the world.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a blueprint for how he would respond to an uptick in hate crimes on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, while the Liberals accused him of being irresponsible for prematurely labelling an explosion at a Canada-U.S. border checkpoint a "terrorist attack" the day before.

On air quality maps, purple signifies the worst of it. In reality, it's a thick, hazardous haze that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange.

The enormous energy demands of Bitcoin mining are prompting some U.S. municipalities to impose moratoriums or outright bans on cryptocurrency facilities. Bitcoin mining activity, critics warn, is leading to electricity price hikes and a revival of dirtier sources of power.

The hotly debated transmission buildout divided environmentalists, but experts say it was the only real hope for the state's — and the country's — climate goals.

For the past year a company that “mines” cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power−thirsty computers working around the clock to verify bitcoin transactions: the grounds of a coal−fired power plant in rural Montana.