If you live in California, the effects of climate change loom large this summer. In Southern California, where I live, back-to-back heat waves have enveloped suburbs in triple-digit temperatures for weeks now. In Northern California, a fire that has burned more than 100,000 acres and claimed the lives of several people in Shasta County has been declared the seventh worst in the state’s history.
Federal public servants never analyzed the full impact of a national price on carbon in Canada's most populous province, and are now holding additional meetings as a result of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's election, a senior federal official revealed Thursday.
John Moffet, assistant deputy minister at Environment and Climate Change Canada’s environmental protection branch, confirmed that the federal system had been counting on Ontario’s cap and trade regime to do the heavy lifting.