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The young CEO of ALT TEX has a modest goal. Myra Arshad just wants to dismantle the $104-billion global polyester industry, one of the primary climate villains of fast fashion. She and her co-founder are aiming to do that by turning food waste into textiles for clothing.

A recent poll shows an overwhelming majority of Newfoundland and Labrador residents want to see a transition away from fossil fuels. But the province is handing over hundreds of millions of dollars to the struggling industry.

Ottawa is launching a $1.5-billion fund to grow the country's clean fuel sector — but will financing be enough?

Friday marked the end of a global week of action against insurers of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project.

Despite plans to go electric, major auto manufacturers are focused on polluting SUVs and pickup trucks in the near term, which has one environmental group calling for new levels of federal scrutiny.

Gowtham Ramachandran and Toronto startup company Trace are developing manufacturing technologies to make it faster, cheaper and more efficient for hardware teams to build electronics.

The fast-fashion boom is fuelling a rise in the use of synthetic fibres made from fossil fuels, study shows.

Alberta's oil and gas industry is committing to net-zero with the hope carbon capture technology pays off. But will it?

Following pressure from Indigenous and climate activists, Trans Mountain insurer Argo Group is slashing ties with the Crown corporation.

The automaker said in a presentation for investors Wednesday that it will add about US$8 billion to its EV development spending from this year to 2025.

The Sustainable Finance Action Council, launched May 12, will draw upon “financial sector leaders” for help in transforming Canadian markets so that they properly measure, price and disclose the risks faced by businesses from the climate crisis.

Is Lululemon's popular yoga wear polluting the Earth? Stand.earth takes aim at Canada's most popular workout wear company.

The Straits of Mackinac, a “sacred wellspring of Anishinaabe life and culture,” is part of an area ceded to the U.S. in 1836 only upon assurances that the right to hunt, fish and gather would be protected, tribal governments say.

The expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline will stretch hundreds miles and is fiercely opposed by numerous groups — but despite repeated calls, the Canadian government has not forced the pipeline to reveal its insurers.

A major expansion of child care would open up economic opportunities for more parents, especially mothers, who often stay home to care for children because of the high cost and limited availability of existing options. But it will take more work to make the federal budget 2021 promise a reality.