Cap and trade

The Ontario Conservative government is musing about introducing its own plan to make polluters pay, just as it is rejecting the federal government's efforts to do the same thing,

Ontario's environmental commissioner says the Ford government has "swept away" climate policies and programs but urges the province to not give up.

Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner ridiculed the claim as “a complete farce,” saying price declines now are seasonal.

The Ontario government has filed its argument in the Court of Appeal challenging federal carbon pricing as unconstitutional.

Tens of trillions of dollars in economic gains lie in wait as the ultimate prize for nations that can successfully put a price on pollution, kill fossil fuel subsidies and take other steps to tackle climate change — but time is running out.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is musing about breaking a key campaign promise geared at the province's cottage country in the last election. And he's blaming ex-premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government for his apparent waffling.

The Ontario legislature adjourned for the summer on Tuesday, delaying plans to formalize its signature cap and trade cancellation bill.

The federal government is scaling back its carbon pricing plan for heavy industrial emitters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas production without creating an incentive for companies to simply up and leave Canada altogether.

Premier Doug Ford's government has introduced a new plan at the Ontario legislature to minimize the province's losses following its decision to abandon a joint carbon trading market with Quebec and California.

Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna says she has come out of her first meeting with her new Ontario counterpart feeling "disappointed."

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's first throne speech repeated a number of his campaign promises — ending cap-and-trade, eliminating the updated sexual education program put in place by the previous Liberal government, and cleaning up Hydro One.

The Trudeau government's climate change spat with Ontario Premier Doug Ford expanded across Canada on Wednesday as Alberta United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney argued that Ottawa was playing favourites by threatening "to punish Ontarians financially."

About $420 million in federal funding is on the line after Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that his government was beginning an "orderly wind-down" of the province's green programs.

Hours before Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford was to be sworn in, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said the new premier should make sure he has an alternate plan in place so that Ontario residents don't wind up paying for the changes in government policy.

Asked how long he thinks it will take to fulfill a campaign trail pledge to extricate Ontario from its cap and trade system for controlling emissions and how much it will cost, Premier-designate Doug Ford instead started talking about how he thought it would be hard for him to pick out a cabinet because of the strength of his team.