Environmentalists seek ban of thermal coal exports by 2023 as Trudeau sticks to 2030 pledge at COP26

By Cristin Schmitz ( November 3, 2021, 1:38 PM EDT) -- As the COP26 climate conference gets into full swing in Glasgow, Canadian environmentalists are urging Ottawa to accelerate its promised ban on thermal coal exports to 2023, as well as asking the Ontario Court of Appeal not to water down legal protection for the habitat of the piping plover in a test case under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA)...