Earthgauge News – April 2, 2019 Mark 5 days ago Environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com. Or download the podcast here. On the show this week: Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds Judge Says Trump’s Plan to Allow Drilling in Arctic Ocean Is ‘Unlawful and Invalid FOSSIL ANALYSTS BLAME GLOBAL TRANSITION, NOT FEDERAL POLICIES, FOR CANADIAN INDUSTRY’S WOES CO2 EMISSIONS RISE 1.7% IN 2018 AS ENERGY DEMAND SETS RECORD, COAL CONSUMPTION GROWS BP SAYS IT HAS ‘DRAMATICALLY’ CUT EXPLORATION, WILL LEAVE SOME OIL AND GAS IN THE GROUND Melting Ice Is Exposing More and More Bodies as Mount Everest Warms ‘BirthStrike’ Movement Encourages People to Stop Having Children in the Face of Climate Change RUSSIAN CLIMATE LEGISLATION HAS ’80-90% CHANCE’ OF PASSING DESPITE PUSHBACK FROM FOSSILS, OLIGARCHS New York Becomes Second State to Ban Plastic Bags West Papua becomes Indonesia’s first conservation province Retail giant to sell clothes made from food scraps