This week:

• We bring you coverage of Toronto’s Reclaim Earth Day rally, including interviews with Sierra Youth Coalition Director Rosa Kouri and NDP leader Jack Layton, and musical performances by Streets are for People!’s Michael Lewis Johnson.
• Scott Hansen speaks with University of Toronto civil engineering chair Dr. Barry Adams about wastewater and stormwater runoff in Toronto (1 billion litres of it per day, or per inch).
• Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk speak about Canada’s coming lighbulb ban, and the new federal Conservative Green Plan.

The headlines in brief:

• The federal conservatives have released their long-awaited green plan, with weakened emissions reductions of 20 percent of 2006 levels by 2020;
• The federal government declared a country-wide ban on the sale of inefficient light bulbs by 2012;
• Ontario will bring one of North America’s largest solar farms online by 2010;
• Ontario’s environment commissioner says people’s health and the environment are at risk because of ongoing fiscal cutbacks at the provincial government;
• The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would restrict trash imports from Canada and other countries
• Five US Senators have penned a letter demanding more information about a Bush administration plan to alter the Endangered Species Act.
• 3M turned over a report that suggests its scientists were worried about chemicals in products such as Teflon more than two decades ago.
• The government of Brazil will split up its environmental protection agency into two separate units, which may speed up the licensing of projects such as dams and pipelines in the Amazon.

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