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  • 'Less is more:' Restaurants pandemic-proofing menus to survive the second wave

    HALIFAX - The menu at the Stubborn Goat Gastropub in downtown Halifax will always have a classic burger and gourmet mac n' cheese.
  • Ecuador crisis weakens president, strengthens indigenous

    QUITO, Ecuador - Thousands of indigenous demonstrators, student volunteers and local residents launched a mass cleanup Monday of a Quito park where anti-austerity protesters fought police for days, leaving piles of burning tires, trees and construction material.
  • Environmentalists question Pennsylvania's new methane rule

    The administration of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is pushing a regulation to control methane emissions from existing natural gas facilities that doesn't directly target the potent greenhouse gas, raising alarm among environmental groups.
  • No. 2 gas-producing state moves to curb air pollution

    HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania is aiming to curb air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from its vast natural gas exploration fields, with the governor's administration proposing new regulations Thursday even as the Trump administration moves to relax federal requirements.
  • Correction: Britain-London Fire story

    LONDON - In a story June 26 about a company that makes paneling for buildings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the company, Arconic, supplied the fire resistant paneling model Reynobond FR for use on Grenfell Tower. It supplied the model Reynobond PE.
  • Coal on the rise in China, US, India after major 2016 drop

    BEIJING - The world's biggest coal users — China, the United States and India — have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year's record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions.
  • China car dilemma: Beijing wants electric, buyers want SUVs

    BEIJING - Automakers face a dilemma in China's huge but crowded market: Regulators are pushing them to sell electric cars, but buyers want gas-guzzling SUVs.
  • China car dilemma: Beijing wants electric, buyers want SUVs

    BEIJING - Automakers face a dilemma in China's huge but crowded market: Regulators are pushing them to sell electric cars, but buyers want gas-guzzling SUVs.
  • Federal government moves forward on plain packaging for tobacco products

    OTTAWA - The federal government plans to consult Canadians about how best to implement measures to curb smoking that include requiring plain packaging for tobacco products, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Tuesday.

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