CanWest News Service: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plan to crack down on smog and fight climate change would weaken federal powers to regulate greenhouse gases and toxic substances such as mercury, a leaked draft of the government's Clean Air Act suggests. The draft, produced in August and leaked to environmentalists, proposes to shuffle the substances from a list of toxins that can now be regulated under existing laws to a list of "pollutants" that would be vulnerable to legal challenges from ...
Link (via
http://www.ecoearth.info)