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Law students from the University of Toronto wanted to understand how the firms so many of them are recruited by drive the climate crisis. What they found was shocking.

A Calgary carbon capture company has signed a first-of-its-kind carbon offtake agreement with the federal government, a significant milestone that some say could help unlock future private-sector investments in decarbonization projects.

Sustainable finance could be an important step to paying for the energy transition to a climate-safe future, so why is it being used to tear down wind turbines to expand a coal mine?

Environmental groups are hoping a complaint sent to Competition Bureau Canada alleging Enbridge is misleading customers will force the energy giant to stop telling people gas is the cheapest way to heat homes and instead inform them of the benefits of switching to electric.

A new complaint sent to the FBI’s white-collar crime division and filed with U.S. financial regulators alleges Canadian oil company ReconAfrica has used environmental claims to mislead investors.

Enbridge is pushing to expand its gas network in Ontario and is using a key study that erroneously inflated the cost of switching from gas to electricity to heat buildings by billions of dollars, evidence filed with the regulator reveals.

In the wake of intense international criticism, ReconAfrica went to Global Affairs Canada for help. Ambassador Bob Rae dipped into his Rolodex next.

A director of Imperial Oil is in the crosshairs of Public Sector Pension Investment Board members who are calling on her to be removed — with cause — over the oilsands giant's tailings leak scandal.

As Ottawa rolls out a suite of climate policies, fossil fuel giant Shell sought a meeting to find out if a massive LNG expansion plan makes sense, documents obtained by Canada's National Observer reveal.

An expansive new study from environmental and Indigenous rights groups has traced billions of dollars worth of investment in oil drilling in the Amazon.

NDP MP Niki Ashton, alongside other climate advocates, is urging the country’s largest stock exchange to suspend the listing of a Vancouver-based oil and gas company drilling in an ecologically sensitive area.

Environmental advocacy groups are warning federal watchdogs that RBC's potential acquisition of HSBC Canada will make the country’s banking system more vulnerable to the risks of climate change and slow action to address the crisis.

At the banks' annual general meetings, shareholders voted down resolutions urging stronger climate action despite promises to reach net zero. Is it time for federal regulators to force the banks to fall in line?

The ice cream giant has signed onto an open letter detailing allegations against the Community-Industry Response Group — also known as the "pipeline police" — and urging Canada, British Columbia and the RCMP to suspend all of its activities.

Despite promising to reach net-zero emissions, last year, RBC provided more money to fossil fuels than any other bank in the world.