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Climate
Biden administration proposes first-ever rules to protect workers from heat waves

President Joe Biden looks to speed up heat safety regulations that could protect 36 million workers after Texas and Florida block cities from enacting their own protections

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Climate
More than 60% of anti-green Conservative MPs lost seats in U.K. election

Advocates welcomed the departure of lawmakers who opposed strong climate policy in Labour’s landslide election

Mining
Feds ignore cost of water pollution cleanup as they greenlight Teck coal mine sale

Environmentalists say Ottawa’s approval of Swiss-based Glencore’s takeover of Teck Resources’ steelmaking coal mines leaves an “environmental disaster” in its wake

Food
Here's how the meat and dairy lobby is watering down climate policy in Europe

InfluenceMap report reveals that backsliding on climate policies in Europe is partly due to meat and dairy lobbying tactics that mirror those used by Big Oil

Climate
Could the video game industry be key to levelling up on climate action?

New research shows that video game players are more likely to engage in collective action on global warming, while industry tries to tackle emissions

ClimateSummer 2024
Knight Bites: Six ways cities are trying to keep their cool in record-breaking heat waves

The planet has been living through record-smashing heat, and few places are as treacherous as concrete-laden cities. Here’s how cities from Paris to Abu Dhabi are coping.

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ClimateSummer 2024
Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

Insure Our Future wants insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects – including LNG export terminals – and make polluters pay for climate disasters rather than hiking rates for homeowners

ClimateSummer 2024
Heroes: How these Swiss seniors won first-ever climate case in international court

Heat-related deaths have spiked by roughly 30% in Europe over the last two decades. A group of older Swiss women successfully argued their government wasn’t doing enough to protect them.

Finance
Parliament grilled Canada's Big Five banks on their fossil fuel financing - here's why it matters

OPINION | Their testimonies proved why new rules to shift finance away from polluting investments are urgently needed

FoodSummer 2024
How Sundance Commons is training the next generation of young, racialized farmers

With more than 40% of Canadian farmers retiring in the next decade, an urban farm in Toronto is giving marginalized youth the tools to start their own farm businesses

Climate
Canada’s new greenwashing ban rattles fossil fuel industry

Bill C-59 has barred companies from making claims they can’t back up, but what kind of difference will it make?

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LeadershipSummer 2024
Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance

The former leader of the NDP, who won the 2024 Corporate Knights Award of Distinction, changed how government thinks about sustainable development

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