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Finance
Canada’s biggest pension plan is fuelling worst rainy-day future ever

Report card finds Canadian Pension Plan stands out as “biggest investor in and defender of fossil fuel investment in the Canadian pension sector”

Transportation
This Black-led non-profit is using cycling to build healthier communities and racial justice

Systemic barriers keep Black and Brown people driving, and away from transit, cycling or walking. The Equiticity Racial Equity Movement in in Chicago is aiming to change that in a holistic way.

Energy
Renewables have been driving economic growth, even with the deck stacked in favour of fossil fuels

OPINION | Contrary to some commonly held beliefs, my research has shown that a clean transition is, and has been for at least a decade, good for the economy

Energy
How Canada's LNG could hurt – not help – Asia's green transition

Enviro orgs in South Korea and Japan say the notion that LNG is climate-friendly is outdated and that Asia should shift from coal directly to renewables

heat pumps, decarbonization, electrification
Energy
To fight inflation, get a heat pump

Why installing hundreds of thousands of heat pumps isn’t just essential to meeting our climate targets but anti-inflationary too

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Climate
Major carbon emitters in Canada are still not taking net-zero targets seriously

Climate Engagement Canada analyzed 41 publicly traded emitters and found that more than half were lacking “credible net-zero transition strategies”

plastics, oil companies, petrochemicals
Circular Economy
How the plastic industry lied about recycling for decades

A bombshell report documents a “decades-long campaign of fraud and deception” from Big Oil and the plastics industry to promote recycling as a solution to the plastic pollution crisis

Exxon Mobil, lawsuit, SLAPP
Climate
Exxon lawsuit a sign of more punishing tactics against climate activist investors

Three years after oil giant suffered historic defeat at the hands of shareholder activists, Exxon turns to conservative Texas courts to silence climate investors

Tesla, Evs, Hertz
Transportation
Hertz electric fleet sell-off does not spell doom for future of EVs

Car rental giant says cost of repairing Tesla fleet is just a speed bump in its transition to EVs

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2024 Clean 200
List of Clean 200 companies captures the green transition in full flight

Apple tops 2024 ranking of publicly traded companies that are leading clean economy solutions

affordable housing floods
Buildings
Is the rush to build affordable homes putting them in the line of fire (and floods)?

Political pressure to build more affordable housing shouldn’t become a licence for shortsighted construction that can’t withstand climate catastrophes

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