Climate Warning Labels On Gasoline May Become A Reality

The municipality of West Vancouver, prompted by Grade 10 student Emily Kelsall, may be the first in Canada to put labels on gas nozzles warning of the dangers of climate change. The municipality is looking into whether it has the necessary power to enact such a bylaw, we think that they might.

Source: http://ourhorizon.org/

We wrote earlier about Our Horizon‘s innovative campaign to get municipalities to use their municipal business licensing powers to require gasoline retailers to put climate change warning labels on gasoline dispensers. We concluded that the combined effect of the local impacts of climate change, and the real local pain caused by climate change as a whole, could be enough of a municipal nexus to support a labelling bylaw.