Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN!)

n a scathing report tabled Thursday on behalf of the Auditor General of Canada, a federal climate watchdog says Ottawa effectively broke its promise to ban thermal coal exports more than a year ago — but never told anyone. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

United States President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is “terminating” a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling. theenergymix.com/trump-says-…

A single glacier sitting at the bottom of the world may be all that is holding back catastrophic amounts of sea level rise. As it melts away faster than ever, scientists want to get a better understanding of when it might fail. But there's more bad news. theenergymix.com/thwaites-is…

Environment and Climate Change Canada abandoned its work to end thermal coal exports, without any record of being directed to do so—something Canada’s auditor general said she’s never seen before in 20 years of auditing the federal government. theenergymix.com/ottawa-quie…

Fossil fuel projects already under way will emit 7x times more climate pollution than the atmosphere can absorb with even a 1 in 2 chance of holding average global warming to 1.5°C. theenergymix.com/existing-fo…

[Don't hold your breath.] This week’s Canada-EU Summit in Montreal is the federal government’s best opportunity to bring climate change closer to the centre of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s global trade and economic diversification agenda. theenergymix.com/canada-eu-s…

Canada is a major fossil fuel producer whose climate ambitions fall far short of Europe’s. And under Carney, those ambitions are weakening. politico.eu/article/mark-car…

The rapid decline of Antarctic sea ice since 2016 has triggered a dramatic shift in a crucial part of Earth’s climate system, scientists say. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

The head of the major projects office says Ottawa will need new ways to cut emissions to meet its climate goals because the proposed Pacific Link oil pipeline will emit more than the Pathways carbon capture project will sequester. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

Delaying the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 7thassessment report means countries will be forced to negotiate emissions reductions without the most up-to-date science in hand. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

The federal government must pause its planned rollback on pesticide regulations and better account for research showing that even small amounts of residue including neonicotinoids, atrazine & glyphosate, can harm human health and the environment. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

Bill C-39 is fast-tracking a corporate agenda augmentingthe worst features of Canada’s economic structure. It will leave widening inequality & broken treaties, accelerate #climatechange. It has fingerprints of the Business Council of Canada all over it. canadiandimension.com/articl…

The federal government is dismantling Canada’s environmental safety net to benefit powerful, often foreign-owned, industries while gutting the laws & funding initiatives designed to help Canada reach its climate targets. ecojustice.ca/carney-governm…

Despite intense pressure from data centre developers, the industry has received less than 1 per cent of the electricity capacity allocated to new customers by the Quebec government over nearly four years. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

Calgary’s Mayor Jeromy Farkas plans to propose a moratorium on data centre development until the city can develop rules to regulate them. If the motion passes Calgary would become the second municipality in Alta. to pause applications for AI data centres. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

in answer to a questionnaire from the @TOenviro Alliance, Chow expressed support for a maximum heat bylaw to protect renters during heat waves, planting more shade trees in areas where they are lacking and introducing a pause on large data centres. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

[Grr.] The Ford government announced an omnibus bill on Tuesday that includes measures to create new landfills and incinerators across the province amid new US tariffs on waste. nationalobserver.com/2026/10…

Climate scientists have already established that Europe’s summer was the hottest on record. Now they are saying it was likely the deadliest as well, with their models showing that the extreme heat led to more than 50,000 excess deaths in cities alone. theenergymix.com/50000-dead-…

Environmentalists, Indigenous groups & climate scientists are celebrating the reelection in Brazil of President "Lula" which brings the prospect of a continued focus on stopping the illegal cutting of the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world. theenergymix.com/environment…

Four-hour battery storage is now cheaper than the open-cycle gas turbines typically used during peak demand in energy systems across 43 markets worldwide, says a report by Scotland-based data and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie. theenergymix.com/batteries-c…