Analysis

Scott Pruitt is out as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist who was recently confirmed by the Senate, will succeed him as acting administrator.

Last weekend, there were 170 fires burning across B.C., 10 times more than the same time last year. But officials say it's still impossible to predict how 2018’s wildfire season will play out, and whether the province will find itself in a state of emergency again this year.

The controversial speakers, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, were in town to debate each other on Saturday evening. It was the first time that these two have met on stage.

The implications for the Conservatives are serious. Scrapping Ontario’s cap and trade system will be “messy and costly”

It’s not the only big purchase he and other Trump administration figures have made.

The deal that emerged from the Trump-Kim summit has been criticized as having weaker language than in past North Korean negotiations. It turns out, it also has weaker language than the G7 statement that the Americans endorsed right before Trump fled Canada for Singapore.

Canada will have a hard time meeting its climate goals at home if it keeps producing its main fossil fuel, oil. But there may be an even bigger story about oil and Canada: the global impact of oilsands growth could undermine international progress just as much.

The Government of British Columbia has set a tough new climate target. Clean Energy BC’s Jae Mather says he has the recipe to deliver on it.

Exit polls suggest that Patrick Brown, even after the allegations that forced him to quit as leader, would have had a similar result as Ford.

According to Rachel Notley's budget, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will produce no benefit to oil prices at all — that’s right, no benefit.

This story starts more than 18 years ago, in March 2000, when a piece of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off and floated free on Antarctic waters. The crack of that iceberg forming filled the ocean with noise. Since scientists started documenting the size of icebergs, they had never seen one larger.

Allowing political appointees on federal environmental assessment review panels is hardly compatible with the independence required to do a credible job, says a former senior official with Quebec's assessment agency.

If Ontario PC leader Doug Ford wins the election and sues the federal government to prevent carbon pricing, he would likely lose, say constitutional and environmental law experts.

On land, heatwaves can be deadly for humans and wildlife and can devastate crops and forests. Unusually warm periods can also occur in the ocean. These can last for weeks or months, killing off kelp forests and corals, and producing other significant impacts on marine ecosystems, fishing and aquaculture industries.

B.C. has a very strong argument against Alberta’s move to limit the flow of oil into the province, and Ottawa’s decision to buy the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline is unlikely to change that, three constitutional experts agree.