This week:

• Ontario MPP and NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns speaks with Jordan Poppenk about his Community Right to Know legislation, which would identify known carcinogens in products, as well as the Ontario Climate Change Act.
• First-time correspondant Shak Haq speaks with leaders from the group ProtestBarrick about the environmental impact of gold mining and some controvercial actions taken by Barrick Gold around the world.

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The headlines in brief:

• Environment Minister John Baird has said that Canadian companies will be able to buy and sell carbon credits on a domestic and international exchange;
• The Harper government’s new environmental plan has been condemned by opposition parties, the European community and prominent environmentalists David Suzuki and Al Gore;
• Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is being criticized by Conservatives for commenting that their environmental plan was a “grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis”;
• Premiers and territorial leaders frustrated with federal inaction on Kyoto targets joined at a working meeting on climate change on Tuesday, but emerged only with a commitment to keep talking;
• Gas prices are spiking as high as $1.28 across Canada;
• Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than computer models predict and could disappear completely before the middle of the century.
• The Mexican city of Tehuacan is suffering from toxic pollution produced by blue jeans factories.
• According to a new UN report, developing nations that are quickly industrializing have reduced their emissions growth by more than the total cuts demanded of rich nations by the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol.
• Scientists are concerned about how carbon is handled in a part of the ocean called the ‘twilight zone’, which blocks carbon absorption and seems to vary by location.
• Genetic scientists are looking for relatives of a Galapagos tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, long thought to be the sole survivor of his species. They have discovered a hybrid that had a parent of George’s species;
• Delegates at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have reached an agreement on the best ways to combat climate change.

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