Environment
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Climate action helps companies build reputations and attract investors
This year, climate change topped off the agenda at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — where every January, global leaders and the heads of the world’s largest companies gather to find ways to improve…
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Caterpillar, Apple among big names hit by U.S.-China trade war
Companies making the majority of their revenue outside the U.S. fared worse on earnings and revenue growth during Q4
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Canada rejects global ban on shipping recyclables as trash rots in Manila
The Philippines continues to press Canada to take back more than 100 containers filled with rotting household garbage shipped to Manila in 2013
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CEOS for Royal Bank, Enbridge, call for better balance in energy policies
The country needs an energy strategy that will better balance environmental and Indigenous goals, they say
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NDP candidates push for stronger climate action as Singh supports LNG Canada
The NDP leader is seeking his first seat in Parliament in a byelection in Burnaby South
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Chemicals contaminating U.S. water supplies focus of EPA plan
There’s growing evidence that long-term exposure to the perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl compounds can be dangerous, even in tiny amounts
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Scientist who popularized term “global warming” dies at 87
Wallace Smith Broecker brought “global warming” into common use with a 1975 article that correctly predicted rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would lead to pronounced warming
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Environmental group seeks EPA documents on Minnesota mine
Environmentalists worry PolyMet Mining’s planned US$1 billion mine, which would occupy 19,000 acres in the St. Louis River basin, will create a permanent pollution source from the river into Lake Superior
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TSB says improved tankers involved in Manitoba derailment that spilled crude
The tankers are an upgraded version considered to have improved safety features over the cars that were involved in the 2013 fatal explosion and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.
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NEB rejects call to expand scope of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion review
Stand.earth filed a motion to the federal regulator on Jan. 21 demanding it add consideration of the project’s upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions
