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Environmental groups launch legal challenge against B.C.'s Roberts Bank port project

Environmental groups launch legal challenge against B.C.'s Roberts Bank port project

VANCOUVER — Five environmental groups have launched a combined legal challenge against the port expansion plan at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, that was approved by the federal government last month.
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Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney loses attempt to have lawsuit thrown out

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney loses attempt to have lawsuit thrown out

EDMONTON — Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney has lost his bid to have a court throw out a defamation case five environmental groups brought against him.
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Supreme Court sharply limits federal government's ability to police pollution into certain wetlands

Supreme Court sharply limits federal government's ability to police pollution into certain wetlands

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply limited the federal government's authority to police water pollution into certain wetlands, the second decision in as many years in which a conservative majority narrowed the reach of environmen
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Georgia nuclear rebirth arrives 7 years late, $17B over cost

Georgia nuclear rebirth arrives 7 years late, $17B over cost

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Two nuclear reactors in Georgia were supposed to herald a nuclear power revival in the United States. But the project is seven years late and $17 billion over budget as Georgia Power Co.
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Inspections to begin on First Nation due to wildfire in Northwest Territories

Inspections to begin on First Nation due to wildfire in Northwest Territories

HAY RIVER, N.W.T. — The K'atl'odeeche First Nation says it is to begin inspecting buildings today on the reserve, but it is not yet safe for residents to return as a wildfire continues to burn.
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Timeline: How Georgia and South Carolina nuclear reactors ran so far off course

Timeline: How Georgia and South Carolina nuclear reactors ran so far off course

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — The first of two nuclear reactors in Georgia is generating electricity and could be days away from achieving full-power operation. But the new units at Georgia Power Co.
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Typhoon Mawar batters Guam, and 'what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks'

Typhoon Mawar batters Guam, and 'what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks'

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam's governor gave the all-clear Thursday after Typhoon Mawar tore through the second-largest U.S.
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Weeks before EU and Latin American joint summit, trade deal remains elusive

Weeks before EU and Latin American joint summit, trade deal remains elusive

BRUSSELS (AP) — Only weeks before a joint summit between the European Union and Latin American nations was supposed to seal an oft-delayed trade deal , the writing on the wall of EU headquarters Thursday made it clear why it still might not happen.
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Japan nuclear watchdog asks Fukushima plant operator to assess risk from reactor damage

Japan nuclear watchdog asks Fukushima plant operator to assess risk from reactor damage

TOKYO (AP) — A nuclear watchdog has asked the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to assess possible risks resulting from damage that was found in a key supporting structure inside one of the three melted reactors.
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Centuries-old cotton tree, a national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone

Centuries-old cotton tree, a national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Torrential rains in Sierra Leone's capital felled the centuries-old Cotton Tree, a national treasure whose loss has left “a gap" in people's hearts, the country's President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday.
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