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The Quebec government is set to introduce two draft regulations aimed at increasing the requirements for the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) standard. The goal is to have 2 million electric cars on Quebec roads by 2030. The current target is 1.6 million electric cars in six years.

Quebec dairy farmers will get to share $3.6 million to move closer to their goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Quebecs minister of agriculture, fisheries and food, André Lamontagne, and his colleague in the environment, climate change, wildlife and parks department, Benoit Charette, will make the announcement Thursday afternoon on the sidelines of the annual Quebec dairy producers general meeting, which is being held in Saint-Hyacinthe since Wednesday.

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Montreal councillors are calling for two new sampling stations in Montreals east end and for the provincial government to create a public registry of environmental information, as required by law. Two opposition city councillors are concerned about the arrival of new industrial projects in what they call the "black lung of Montreal," an area where they say air pollution is associated with numerous health problems.

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The province will rely on complaints to fine people.

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The consultation body says the government should monitor farmlands nearby for at least seven years to ensure no ill effects from buried power lines.

The Quebec government and the City of Rouyn-Noranda promise to accompany citizens who will be relocated because of arsenic emissions from the Horne smelter in each step and that the operation will be done gradually. Quebec will pay $88.3 million to support the city in relocating nearly 200 families living in the Notre-Dame sector.

Quebecs environmental review body, the BAPE, has made its report public on the Quebec portion of the project to deliver Hydro-Quebec electricity to New York State, highlighting the necessary follow-up on the yield of agricultural land, the measures to be taken to reduce soil compaction and the importance of active participation by civil society in the energy transition.