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MONTREAL — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault went on the offensive Friday, comparing rival Éric Duhaime to former United States president Donald Trump and saying the Conservative leader's stance on COVID-19 restrictions is disqualifying

MONTREAL — Quebec's Environment Department has released a list of eight companies that have the right to exceed provincial norms when it comes to water or air emissions.

Following comments from Environment Minister Benoit Charette, some media outlets and politicians reported last week that 89 companies were deviating from existing pollution laws.

MONTREAL - Quebec's Environment Department has released a list of eight companies that have the right to exceed provincial norms when it comes to water or air emissions.

MONTREAL — Arsenic emissions at a western Quebec copper smelter will be reduced to five times the provincial norm by 2017 at a cost of around $500 million, the plant’s owner said Thursday.

A public health study from 2005 to 2018 showed that arsenic levels on site were 165 nanograms per cubic meter of air.

In the wake of revelations about exemptions allowing the Horne Smelter to pollute its environment well above standards in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette has pledged to be more transparent in all 89 cases of companies taking advantage of such permission.

The owner of a western Quebec copper smelter says it will adhere to the governments new requirements and reduce arsenic emissions to five times the provincial norm by 2027.

The commodities giant that owns a copper smelter in northwestern Quebec says it will invest $502 million over five years to meet the provincial Environment Ministry's demands to reduce the amount of arsenic emitted into the air by the plant.

MONTREAL — Arsenic emissions at a western Quebec copper smelter will be reduced to five times the provincial norm by 2017 at a cost of around $500 million, the plant’s owner said Thursday.