Environment News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks after powerful storms dumped 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow on California, state officials and environmental groups in the drought-ravaged state are grappling with what to do with all of that water.

It’s a given that when the Great Backyard Bird Count begins Friday, Steve and Janet Kistler of Hart County, Kentucky, will be joining in. They’ve done so every year since the now-global tradition began 25 years ago.

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state's environmental justice law — signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago — to take full effect.

Barclays PLC, once a major oilsands funder, says it will no longer provide financing to the industry.

RICHMOND, B.C. — Migratory birds have become a traffic hazard in Richmond, B.C., and RCMP are warning drivers to take precautions. Almost two dozen snow geese have been killed by vehicles in recent separate road instances.

CALGARY — Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he backs Alberta Premier Danielle Smith over her concerns about what she's called Ottawa's anti-oil-and-gas agenda.

VANCOUVER — A B.C. wildlife photographer looking for birds off the shores of Vancouver's Stanley Park has instead captured an unforgettable image of a different animal in flight — an orca leaping from Burrard Inlet.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin's city manager was fired Wednesday in the wake of outrage over a slow and fumbled response to a winter storm power outage that left thousands of people in the Texas capital without electricity for a week or longer.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Oil-dependent Alaska has long sought ways to fatten its coffers and move away from the fiscal whiplash of oil’s boom-and-bust cycles. The newest idea, promoted by Republican Gov.