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  Mayor Plante wants to create 'sponge roads' to adapt to climate change

  Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante is proposing the creation of 'sponge roads' to adapt to climate change, which would involve making certain streets more permeable, for example by removing asphalt and therefore parking spaces.

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  Francois Legault praises Quebec's environmental record in front of Al Gore

  Quebec Premier François Legault bragged about his environmental record on Tuesday at a meeting of representatives of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance. Former US vice president Al Gore was sitting next to him.

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  'For now, we're not touching it': Quebec premier closes door on nuclear power

  Quebec Premier Francois Legault has closed the door on nuclear power, at least for now. 'For the time being, we're not touching it,' said Legault when asked about the subject at a press scrum in New York on Tuesday.

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  Quebec's Anticosti Island added to UNESCO World Heritage List

  Ten years after Quebec's government wanted to launch oil and gas exploration on Anticosti Island, the picturesque territory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

• Quebec premier will speak about the environment at UN next week in rare honour

  Quebec Premier François Legault will speak about the environment at the United Nations in New York next week, the Canadian Press has learned. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invited Legault to attend the UN General Assembly and participate in the first Climate Ambition Summit.

• Quebec giving $29 M to citizen projects fighting climate crisis

  The Quebec government will invest $29 million to support citizen initiatives in the fight against climate change.

• Federal government announces $2 million for species at risk in Quebec

  Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced $2.19 million in funding over the next three years to protect species at risk in the Northern Green Mountains natural area in southern Quebec.

• Group picks up 4 tonnes of trash from Quebec's shores over the summer

  A Quebec organization collected over four tonnes of waste from the province's riverbanks this summer. Through 20 or so clean-up events in the Montreal, North Shore and Lower St. Lawrence regions, volunteers with Organisation Bleue crisscrossed the riverbanks to collect as much waste as possible.

• Quebec to receive 1,500 new electric charging stations through federal funding

  Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has announced nearly $30 million in funding for the installation of more than 1,500 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Quebec.

• Que. minister, environment professor disagree on transparency, climate action plan

  Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette has rejected the criticisms and accusations of an energy specialist who resigned from the Legault government's Advisory Committee on Climate Change.

• Here's why there have been so many mosquitoes in southern Quebec this summer

  While the communities in the north are dry and burning, those in southern Quebec have been hit with wet and warm weather all summer providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

• Wildfires: Quebec lifts ban on forest access

  The ban on forest access to government lands has been completely lifted in Quebec. The Natural Resources and Forests Ministry also ended road closures in the Nord-du-Québec region at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday.