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Biden administration approves the nation's seventh large offshore wind project

The Biden administration greenlit the seventh large offshore wind project in the United States Tuesday.
Pennsylvania county joins other local governments in suing oil industry over climate change

Pennsylvania county joins other local governments in suing oil industry over climate change

A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in accelerating global warming.
Environment Canada issues dust advisory for central and northern B.C.

Environment Canada issues dust advisory for central and northern B.C.

HOUSTON, B.C. — Environment Canada has added a dust advisories for a large section of central and northern British Columbia in response to "high concentrations of coarse particulate matter" that it says is most prominent near busy roads.
Vietnamese automaker VinFast to start selling EVs in Thailand

Vietnamese automaker VinFast to start selling EVs in Thailand

BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced Tuesday that it plans to sell its electric vehicles in Thailand and said it had tied up with auto dealers to open showrooms in the country.
Wind and sun are free, but it's harder to get renewable energy projects built these days. Here's why

Wind and sun are free, but it's harder to get renewable energy projects built these days. Here's why

SPRAKEBUELL, Germany (AP) — The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, the faint smell of manure in the newly fertilized fields.
Here are the big hurdles to the global push to build up renewable energy

Here are the big hurdles to the global push to build up renewable energy

The world's governments have agreed they want to triple renewable energy by 2030, a goal laid out at the U.N. climate summit in December.
UK farmers in tractors head to Parliament to protest rules they say threaten livelihoods

UK farmers in tractors head to Parliament to protest rules they say threaten livelihoods

LONDON (AP) — Farmers drove dozens of tractors in a slow-motion convoy towards Britain’s Parliament on Monday to protest post- Brexit rules and trade deals that they say are endangering livelihoods and food security.
National monument on California-Oregon border will remain intact after surviving legal challenge

National monument on California-Oregon border will remain intact after surviving legal challenge

ASHLAND, Oregon (AP) — The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S.
How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee

How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee

BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam (AP) — Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him.
Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod

Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — Intense efforts are underway to reunite an orca calf with its family pod after its mother was stranded and died in a tidal lagoon near the remote northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos.