{"id":27748,"date":"2026-01-21T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27748"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:17:10","slug":"news-briefs-january-21-2026-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2026\/01\/21\/news-briefs-january-21-2026-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>News Briefs<\/em>: January 21, 2026 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27699\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-453x700.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-1325x2048.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEXUS-36-9-PAGE-1-scaled.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This story originally appeared in our January 21, 2026 issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>CRD on track for emissions target<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Capital Regional District (CRD) recently announced that it remains on track to hit the targets in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that were enshrined into law in 2007\u2019s provincial Greenhouse Gas Reductions Target Act. With an aim of dropping GHG emissions 40 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050, new reports from 2024 indicate that the CRD\u2019s emissions of approximately 1.8 million tonnes of C02 annually show a 30 percent drop per capita within the CRD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRD on track for emissions target The Capital Regional District (CRD) recently announced that it remains on track to hit the targets in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that were enshrined into law in 2007\u2019s provincial Greenhouse Gas Reductions Target Act. With an aim of dropping GHG emissions 40 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-21-2026","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27749,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27748\/revisions\/27749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}