Environment News

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — The young killer whale stranded in the lagoon off Vancouver Island is a girl.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says although she once spoke positively of carbon rebates, the rising cost of the federal levy means Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can no longer justify it.

About 19,700 Hydro-Québec customers are still without power as work crews continue restoring electricity after a major spring storm. A notice from the utility says about 1,200 workers are in the field.

Karen Nickel has been dealing with lupus and other illnesses for years, illnesses she blames on childhood exposure to a suburban St. Louis creek where Cold War-era nuclear waste was dumped decades ago.

GILFORD, N.H.

Alberta's irrigation district managers are proposing a $5-billion plan for water storage and conservation in the province's south as the region faces increasingly tight supplies of the vital resource.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

MARSHALL, Mich.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is pausing the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defends the regulation in court.